Do-Overs: 10 speculative fiction books that got major rewritesafterthey were published

Like the old saying goes , a account book is never finish , only abandoned . Some science fiction authors take this axiom to ticker , rewriting their books even year after their first publication . Here are 10 perfectionist authors whose study were never done .

observe : This listing does n’t include “ fix - ups , ” or novels that are take in out of previously published stories that were edit together — that was a top-notch common praxis back in the sidereal day , and not quite the same affair as publishing a novel , then publishing a severely revised version of the same novel afterwards . It also does n’t admit short stories or novelette that were later expatiate to novel - length , for the same reason .

When HARLIE Was One by David Gerrold ( 1972 )

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The original version of When HARLIE Was One was a finalist for the Hugo awarding and coined the idiom “ computer computer virus ” for a program that runs on computers without permission . The 1988 variant , When HARLIE Was One Release 2.0 , was revised to admit more accurate information about computer science .

Against the descent of Night by Arthur C. Clarke ( 1948 )

Against the Fall of Night would go on to become the more well - known The City and the Stars in 1956 . Unlike many other rewrite novels , the first edition did not shine out of mark and both are still around . Both books keep up the story of Alvin as he makes his elbow room out of the vaulted urban center of Diaspar . Though there are somewhat different characters in each book , the elemental difference seems to be that in Against the Fall of Night Alvin is the first child yield in 7,000 years in a city filled with exceptionally long endure people . While in The City and the Stars , the city ’s inhabitants have their computer memory stored and are recycle into young body . In this reading Alvin is a Unique : a fresh soul carry into an adult body with no retiring lives to commemorate . This single change adds depth to the fictional metropolis ; apparently the city planners created such Uniques to eventually further the masses of Diaspar to leave their city and research the populace . Clarke also added more technological updates , including a Central Computer that does n’t just ensure the metropolis , but is actually a ego - cognisant A.I. He also adds the ideas of Sagas , practical world - like storytelling devices that are whole immersive .

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The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney ( 1955 )

Jack Finney ’s 1955 The Body Snatchers was “ revised and updated ” for its release in 1978 as Invasion of the Body Snatchers , to coincide with the release of the new pic adaptation . While the game rest the same , this newer rendering include newly added mention to events that happen in the seventies .

Ground Zero Man by Bob Shaw ( 1971 )

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This ledger became The Peace Machine ( 1985 ) after a revise that included more cultural updates , like reference of current television . As the book is about the Cold War arms race ( and about how it can not terminate , no matter what engineering is invented ) a 1985 reissue makes a great slew of common sense as the book can be read as a comment on the “ Star Wars ” program .

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien ( 1937 )

After the success of Lord of the Rings , Tolkien toyed with revising his earlier Bible to make it fit in with the Rings saga better . He sent a sample chapter of the revised version , “ Riddles in the Dark , ” to his publishers , Allen & Unwin , to see if they were interested . He heard nothing more , and adopt they ’d determine not to pursue the matter — until he welcome galleys of a new edition that contain the revised chapter . In the novel version , the biggest changeis that Gollum is much less eager to bet his ring on the outcome of the riddle game . Thanks to CarrierCrytharis for reminding us of this one !

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ( 1818 )

The translation of this seminal scientific discipline fiction novel that most people are familiar with is actually the 1831 edition , which Shelley rewrite and add a new introduction to . Professor John Harcourt of Ithaca college explain the difference between the texts,“Victor Frankenstein is no longer the child of a decay Genevan family . His early readings in the alchemists seem harmless enough , and it is a visiting stranger , not his father , who enclose him to the power of electrical energy . It is at Ingolstadt that the “ angel of destruction ” takes effective and permanent ascendance of his sprightliness : everything thereafter would seem to follow as the inevitable upshot of his determination to create life . His intensified spiritual consciousness is powerless to falsify the course of thing . Walton is younger , more than ready to take Frankenstein as his model . Elizabeth is no longer a first full cousin : the touch of incest remove . Cierval is preparing to join the British find class in India . Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley now distance her characters from the realities of life story so in effect perceived in 1818 . ”

The Stand by Stephen King ( 1978 )

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When The Stand was first release , it was a bare 823 pages long . But in 1990 , King put out a much longer version , called The Stand : Complete and Uncut , which reinstate a spate of scene that he ’d bump off in 1978 for duration reason . But King also made a act of other changes to the text , update the story so it took position in 1990 or else of 1980 and retool several pop culture reference to fit this new rendering . unluckily , the change lead in some anachronisms — include a fiber who was “ in the state of war ” despite being much too young , in 1990 , to have fought in Vietnam .

The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle ( 1987 )

This one has n’t appeared yet — but Beagle is reportedly working on a revised and expanded rendering of this urban fantasy novel in which the Society for originative Anachronism on the spur of the moment does have the king to recreate bygone times . The revise version will be known as Avicenna , for the name of Beagle ’s lightly mask version of Berkeley , and we ca n’t look to see it .

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The Alternate Asimovs by Isaac Asimov ( 1986 )

There comes a head in the life sentence of truly famous , successful , critically darling generator when they become more powerful than their editor program . Who knows when Isaac Asimov reached that point , but we do it he exercise that great power in 1986 with the publication of The Alternate Asimovs . let in were versions of Pebble in the Sky , The End of Eternity and the unforesightful story “ Belief ” . But these are not rewrites of the published rendering — these are the original UN - published versions . He include the 20,000 word novelette that would be dilate into The End of timelessness , with a slightly different closing , two different versions of the short story “ Belief ” , and Grow Old With Me , which would become Pebble in the Sky . Neither The remainder of Eternity or Grow Old With Me had appeared in print in these versions before .

Tons of playscript by John Brunner ( 1959 forward )

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But the peak of rewriting , just for the diaphanous number has to go to Hugo and Nebula award - winning author John Brunner . He revised and republished ten novels in his life history . This seems to have start in 1963 when he revise 1962 ’s Put Down This dry land into The Dreaming Earth . In the watch over old age Brunner would rewrite books that he ’d written as early on as 1959 and continue rewriting until 1982 . He also republished a handful of other novels under second titles without revise them and save under multiple pseudonyms , throw the Brunner completist a rare phallus of fandom . Here ’s a complete list of his revised / republished books :

The 100th Millennium ( 1959 ) ( revised in 1968 as Catch a Falling Star )

Echo in the Skull ( 1959 ) ( revised in 1974 as Give Warning to the World )

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