'Martian Chronicles' Redacted: True, it's not like airbrushing Violet Blue out of Boing Boing, but...

In today's Washington Post story by Marylou Tousignant we learn in an aside that "the stories... revolve around the colonization of Mars between 1999 and 2026. Those dates must have seemed far off to the author, Ray Bradbury, but had to be advanced to 2030 to 2057 in the most recent edition."

I put my crack research team on this and they came back with the following from Wikipedia: "A 1997 edition of the book advances all the dates by 31 years (thus running from 2030 to 2057)...."

So it happened 11 years ago.

At least now I know exactly how far behind the curve I've fallen.

What's next, a wholesale revision of Jules Verne?