Have författare någonsin omskrivit sina tidiga böcker för att passa framtida kanon i scifi och fantasiverkeringar? [stängd]

Tolkien gjorde just det:

In the first edition of The Hobbit, Gollum willingly bets his magic ring on the outcome of the riddle-game, and he and Bilbo part amicably. In the second edition edits, to reflect the new concept of the ring and its corrupting abilities, Tolkien made Gollum more aggressive towards Bilbo and distraught at losing the ring. The encounter ends with Gollum's curse, "Thief! Thief, Thief, Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!" This presages Gollum's portrayal in The Lord of the Rings.

Tolkien sent this revised version of the chapter "Riddles in the Dark" to Unwin as an example of the kinds of changes needed to bring the book into conformity with The Lord of the Rings, but he heard nothing back for years. When he was sent galley proofs of a new edition, Tolkien was surprised to find the sample text had been incorporated. In The Lord of the Rings, the original version of the riddle game is explained as a "lie" made up by Bilbo under the harmful influence of the Ring, whereas the revised version contains the "true" account. The revised text became the second edition, published in 1951 in both the UK and the US.

Source: Wikipedia

Stephen King skrev också om stora delar av den första Dark Tower-boken:

King revised The Gunslinger in 2003. In his introduction to the new edition, King stated that he felt the original version was "dry" and difficult for new readers to access. He also made the storytelling more linear and the book's plot more consistent with the series' ending. Other changes were made in order to resolve continuity errors introduced by later volumes. The added material was over 9000 words (35 pages) in length.

Source: Wikipedia

TV Tropes kallar dessa Orwellian Retcons och har ett antal andra exempel från litteraturen.

Raymond E. Feist gjorde en föredragen upplaga av Trollkarl som var främst att publicera den i hårdback, men fixade lite referenser och introducerade platser som skulle bli viktiga senare. Att citera sin diskussion från hans webbplats :

I wrote no new scenes, but I did add a couple of references that had been generic in the original that made them specific in the [Author's Preferred Edition]. When Charles tells of the Minwanabi betrayal of the Acoma, I had know [sic] in gereral how that was going to fit into a book (if I wrote it) of the other side of the war, but I hadn't named the characters by then. That allowed me to retrofit the references so things would mesh better.