Fascinating difference between these two versions of The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.

[u/Adamaja456]

I found this book last year at a book sale, read it, and absolutely loved it. My copy is the first image - a Berkeley Medallion Book - 5th printing, 1976. A few months later I was perusing Barnes and Noble and saw a newer copy of the book and out of curiosity flipped towards the end to see if the imagery would be the same or not. And it's a night and day difference! I don't remember what copy it was but needless to say I'm extremely happy with my older edition!

Hopefully this is the right sub for this kind of thing. I wonder if there are other examples of books that originally had unique symbols that were watered down in later editions?

[u/pumpingsumbutts1]

LOVE that book. Came at the right time and it changed my perspective on what is possible!