Work Relationships and "Is an abridged version of"

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Work Relationships and "Is an abridged version of"

1andyl
Jun 16, 2021, 5:10 am

Lately I have been seeing "abridged versons of" on works I feel that it is not suitable for,

For example Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 68 - which is apparently an abridged version of Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard. Except of course it isn't. It is a magazine that contains an excerpt from Barsk. I have seen similar for certain anthologies too.

If you are someone who is doing this please don't. The magazine isn't an abridged version of Barsk. I am not even sure the excerpt of Barsk can be called an abridged version - it is just an excerpt (and that is what Lightspeed call it).

I don't think that people are ever going to enter these sort of excerpts as individual works so maybe what we should do is lobby Tim for a "Contains an excerpt of" in the relationships instead.

2r.orrison
Edited: Jun 16, 2021, 5:32 am

I think I'd lobby for "Contains an abridged version of" as that's probably used a lot more (consider Readers Digest Condensed Books). But absolutely - post it in RSI!

3andyl
Jun 16, 2021, 5:37 am

I think there is a larger problem though. Magazines and anthologies might also contain a long review or an essay on a work so we really need "Contains a commentary on the text of..." as well. But fortunately I've never seen those kind of relationships entered.

But I will raise an RSI anyway.

4anglemark
Jun 16, 2021, 8:05 am

An excerpt is certainly not an abridgment.