I'll Build Your Dream Castle-Jack Vance short story
I'll Build Your Dream Castle - Jack Vance short story (original version) AKA: Dream Castle (author’s revision) I'll Build Your Dream Castle is a 14/15/18 page short story that was first published in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction in September of 1947. 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 magazine 1947 original 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 said that the original Dream Castle and another story The World-Thinker were both “so embarrassing that I rewrote a few stand-out passages, a lick-and-a promise operation rather like ...