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So I saw the title and thought of something else. You see I own this book. It is from 1911. As a child in the 80s I read what was the third updated Tom Swift bo
by myrandomcomment 6y ago
So I saw the title and thought of something else. You see I own this book. It is from 1911. As a child in the 80s I read what was the third updated Tom Swift books. That lead me to the 1960s set and then to the original set from the 1910s. I have all of the 80s and 60s set and I own 9 of the ones from the 1910s and I am looking for the rest.
- jdeibele 6y agoThe most famous example of this is the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series. They've been re-written 4 or 5 times, basically updated for each generation. Franklin W. Dixon (Hardy Boys) and Carolyn Keene were pen names for a variety of authors. So they keep the title and author and mostly the plot but change the words to avoid anachronisms.
- myrandomcomment 6y agoI read the 1960s versions of the Hardy Boys and The Nancy Drew when I was ~9. I still own most of them. My mother read everything. The house was full of books. At some point over the years having my own family and moving around a bit the books got cut down to only the old stuff from the 1960 that are collectables, stuff from my grandfathers childhood (things with dates ~1900) and hardbacks of non-fiction type things (science, music theory, math, biographies, the classics). This still covers 3 bookshelves. Everything else is pretty much only in digital form. In this lock down I have come to realize how much I miss the physical book.
- dang 6y agoThat outfit, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, has had some good threads on HN over the years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534629 ("The Secret Syndicate Behind Nancy Drew") https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1705714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1705714 ("The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (1998)")