[LMB] OT: When Favourite Authors Screw Up

[ANDREW BARTON]

"Beth Mitcham" <mitcham.beth at gmail.com>
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> Sometimes facts creep up on an author.  Like all the books listing
Pluto as a planet -- will they seem just dumb to people in a few dozen years? <
  
 
  That's only a change in naming conventions, which shouldn't make a lot of difference to the story.  There used to be a lot of stories set on Mercury where the plot depended on the planet having one side constantly turned to the sun - which we only recently discovered wasn't the case.  I think it's a good test of the story whether they're still readable given that knowledge.
   
  Andrew