Re: Today's ISFDB weirdness

On 2024-05-30, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

ISFDB has a "disowned by its author" tag. The books thus tagged are:
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The Wind from Nowhere by J. G. Ballard
Probe by Margaret Wander Bonanno
The Star Conquerors by Ben Bova
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Survivor by Octavia E. Butler
Rage by Stephen King
Astronauci by Stanislaw Lem
Aeneis by Virgil
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The Butler is a legit awful book, the only true dud Butler ever wrote
(very early in her career). The Bova is also from early in his career,
his first novel, written for Winston. I must have read it but I don't
remember it. In fact, I thought the book Bova disowned was the sequel,
Star Watchmen. The others, I don't know the backstories.
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Weird so many of them are from authors whose surnames begin with "b".

Interesting. But no Harlan Ellison?  I know he disowned SF TV scripts,
and he bought up copies of his _Doomsman_ novel so he could destroy
them - I don't know if that counts as disowning.

Chris