Re: Today's ISFDB weirdness

James Nicoll wrote:

ISFDB has a "disowned by its author" tag. The books thus tagged are:
 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
 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.
 Weird so many of them are from authors whose surnames begin with "b".
 

In an interview Ballard mildly regretted that he had only ten days in which to write "The Wind from Nowhere", but went on to say that he wasn't too sorry as "The wind thing isn't really that interesting".
I don't think that counts as disowning a book.
Stephen Jay Gould, on the other hand, expressed a wish to buy up and destroy every copy of his first book of essays.  Now that's disowning.
William Hyde