Moving this to Cafe Society
A lot of times with textbooks, the new edition doesn’t even add new problems-- It just changes the order of the problems that are already in there.
His The World of Star Trek was also bowdlerized after the first edition. I made it a point to correct all of the changes when I borrowed a copy from my local library.
I wish I’d kept my first edition of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where Willie Wonka’s workers were real life African pygmies. They were later changed to Oompah Loompahs.
Can you say Political Correctness?
I have a copy of Fantastic Voyage 2: Destination Brain that I have not read. I had read that it was a different book about miniaturization. FV was written from someone else’s film script.
Basically, he wrote the first under contract, as a novelization of the movie, but he didn’t think the movie did a very good job as science fiction. So he re-wrote it to his own tastes, addressing the things the movie glossed over.
It was indeed. The original script was by Otto Klement, but that was rewritten by the underrated Jerome Bixby* Asimov simply wrote the novelization, based on that screenplay. Since the book came out before the movie, a lot of people thought it was based on Asimov’s book, which probably rankled him, because he objected to the scientific errors. It might be why he ended writing FV2.
For some reason three books tied to SF movies in the 1960s continued to sell for YEARS with the exact same covers – *Fantastic Voyage, Planet of the Apes, * and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Two of those are novelizations.
*Bixby ought to be well-known for the short story that became the Twilight Zone episode It’s a GOOD Life, the one where Billy Mumy can do anything he wants by wishing it. He also wrote It! The Terror from Beyond Space, from which Alien stole its plot, as well as a few other science fiction movies and a couple of episodes of the original Star Trek.
In pencil, I hope! :eek: You wouldn’t permanently deface public property, would you (even to restore Gerrold’s immortal line, “Meanwhile, it’s been more than two hours since Kirk’s last piece of ass and he starts getting twitchy”)?
When I worked at a Library, we dragged guys who did that into the alley and beat the snot out of them. :dubious:
F. Paul Wilson’s revised “Nightworld” is virtually a different book.
Yes, in pencil; and yes, that was one of the lines. 