My 12 year old daughter has recently got into the American author Lois Duncan, who wrote suspense fiction for teenagers in the 1970s and 1980s.
My daughter was raving about "I Know What You Did Last Summer", and my wife was enthusing about it as well (she read it back in the 1980s), so I started it yesterday to see what the fuss was about.
I knew the book was written in 1973, and was enjoying it immensely when I came to a reference to mobile phones, and then to a webcast! I was stumped, knowing that the novel was written before these things were invented.
Apparently Duncan herself updated the books in 2010, adding references to the internet and mobile phones in order to make the books more appealing to a modern audience.
This is the first time I have heard of this practice. I know that non fiction books are revised so that they are up to date, but revising fiction to make it more modern seems odd.
Are there any other instances of fiction being updated in this way?
My daughter was raving about "I Know What You Did Last Summer", and my wife was enthusing about it as well (she read it back in the 1980s), so I started it yesterday to see what the fuss was about.
I knew the book was written in 1973, and was enjoying it immensely when I came to a reference to mobile phones, and then to a webcast! I was stumped, knowing that the novel was written before these things were invented.
Apparently Duncan herself updated the books in 2010, adding references to the internet and mobile phones in order to make the books more appealing to a modern audience.
This is the first time I have heard of this practice. I know that non fiction books are revised so that they are up to date, but revising fiction to make it more modern seems odd.
Are there any other instances of fiction being updated in this way?
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