[Richwood]

Publisher revisions of things like the Hardy Boys stories for the 10 to 14 or so age group are common. The listed author is a fiction and the actual writers are unknown usually. I remember reading pre WW2 versions of several as a kid and the brothers and friends were riding Harleys, Indians and Henderson motorcycles. In a 1990s or so printing I glanced at in a bookstore they were on Harleys, Hondas and Kawasakis as I recall. Got to keep it contemporary for the kids. Is that censorship?

I agree though, to change dates in near contemporary science fiction to try and keep it in the future is dumb and will seldom work. Need a total rewrite to introduce technology advances like personal computers, internet, cellular telephones etc. In 10 years or less need to include self driving cars and who knows what new technology. Science fiction can be so wrong about the future. I remember stories from the 1930s through the 1960s which had engineers in space still using slide rules for doing calculations and huge computers, some still analog. A current cellular phone has far more calculating power than the huge vacuum tube computer I worked on circa 1965, and it was already long obsolete even then.