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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The new editions are much the same as the old editions, with small modifications for the march of technology, small updates to the language, and with the timeline of the stories straightened out. The books were originally essentially set in the year they were written, meaning that the main characters pretty much aged one year for five-ten years of technological change. Now they have a proper baseline time (starting in 2008, IIRC), and characters age in linear fashion with the year the story is set.
It really just makes it less confusing for a new reader.
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Which is important. Difficult to sell stuff if the hook looks weird.
Hey, I enjoyed the originals. Maybe the new ones would just end up confusing me.
