Dream Castle-Jack Vance short story
Dream Castle - Jack Vance short story (author’s revision) AKA: “ I’ll Build Your Dream Castle ” (original version) Dream Castle is an 18 page short story that was originally published in a 15 page abbreviated version in September 1947 in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction under the title "I'll Build Your Dream Castle." According to the International Speculative Fiction Data Base : "In 1982, Vance revised this story to create “Dream Castle,” which is longer and with significantly revised wording.” This revision was done by Vance for the book Lost Moons , a collection of short works by Vance that was published by Underwood-Miller in 1982. I've read the original magazine version and the 1982 revision and preferred the revised one. Vance himself did not care for this story and in his introduction to the 1982 collection Lost Moons he wrote that Dream Castle and another story The World-Thinker were both “so embarrassing that I rewrote a few stand-out...