Do you return to the books you've written?

[Nik]

We are honored to have here prolific authors with long writing careers. But maybe not only them can share their attitude.
Do you re-visit the books you've written to amend, to update or change something or once published - they remain constant?

[[deleted user]]

I have republished once one of my novels, to correct a number of mistakes and oversights. My written English has improved a lot with practice and reading since then (2012). I am tempted to review a couple of my older novels for the same reasons but am fully occupied in writing new stories and I would rather concentrate on the new than on the old.

[Ian]

In my case, as a general rule, once polished, that is it (apart from altering blurbs and covers). However, the novels I write actually form a for too further history, so there is an overarching story there, so if in one a character refers to a "historical" event, I might have to go back and check it out. I have thought about doing a dystopian one, and slotting it in between 'Bot War (going into an economic melt-down" and "Troubles" (coming out) and since there will be characters in common, I might have to recheck details I have on their character.

There is one more I most certainly will revisit, and that is "Planetary Formation and Biogenesis". That starts with a survey of what was known at the time, and contains 600 scientific references up to about 2011. I have continued with them, and the good news is, the theory I was proposing remains as valid now as then, but there is a lot more data, so a second edition might come out.