[HN Gopher] Cloud Atlas 'astonishingly different' in US and UK e...
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       Cloud Atlas 'astonishingly different' in US and UK editions, study
       finds (2016)
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2021-05-30 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | LatteLazy wrote:
       | It's pretty standard to simplify things for the US market isn't
       | it? Hence the Philosophers stone becoming the Sourcers stone
       | etc...
        
         | crtasm wrote:
         | I don't see anything in the piece about simplification, just
         | the the trouble of tracking changes across two editions while
         | still finishing the edit for each.
        
           | LatteLazy wrote:
           | Well Mitchell claims it was the other way around: the copy
           | editor made it more complex for the UK but the US version was
           | unedited.
           | 
           | I haven't reviewed the (pages and pages apparently) of
           | differences, but the example they give is this:
           | 
           | >In the UK text, for example, Mitchell writes at one point
           | that: "Historians still unborn will appreciate your
           | cooperation in the future, Sonmi ~451. We archivists thank
           | you in the present. [...] Once we're finished, the orison
           | will be archived at the Ministry of Testaments. [...] Your
           | version of the truth is what matters."
           | 
           | >In the US edition, the lines are: "On behalf of my ministry,
           | thank you for agreeing to this final interview. Please
           | remember, this isn't an interrogation, or a trial. Your
           | version of the truth is the only one that matters."
        
       | hyperion2010 wrote:
       | > "Given that so much literary criticism has now been produced on
       | the subject of Mitchell's novel, 12 years after its publication,
       | these version variants are potentially problematic as they have
       | not previously been noted."
       | 
       | Ouch.
        
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