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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
I personally don't like these sorts of changes, Science Fiction from the 1950s should be read as Science Fiction from the 1950s. All any fiction can do is tell us more about ourselves by following someone else. If the actual age of a work is obscured by editorial changes, we lose all perspective of what the author was trying to do. It weakens the story as a work of art.
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I don't disagree with you. The Martian Chronicles is a classic and it shouldn't be touched.
On the other hand, the edition available now is the one and only edition available and the changes were made while the author (not a powerless entity himself) was still above ground.
So your options are:
- Buy the only available edition
- Don't read the book at all (on your e-reader)
- Wait for the 'original, uncut' cash-in edition that will likely be published at some vague point in the future