Subterranean Press continues to publish excellent books like this wonderful collection of Jack Vance stories. These stories were first published in the 1940s to the 1970s. There’s a bit of a mystery in each of Vance’s stories. Although Vance writes about the far future, he makes that future both strange and accessible. Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan have done a great job editing this edition and providing a useful Introduction to Jack Vance’s work. If you’re a Jack Vance fan, Dream Castles is a must-buy!
Table of Contents:
- The Dogtown Tourist Agency
- Freitzke’s Turn
- I’ll Build Your Dream Castle
- Golden Girl
- Sulwen’s Planet
- Cholwell’s Chickens
- A Practical Man’s Guide
- The Narrow Land
- The Enchanted Princess
- Son of the Tree
My copy of this came the other day and it looks spectacular. Another great choice and writer, George.
You’re right, Scott! DREAM CASTLES is a wonderful book. I really admire Subterranean Press and the books they produce.
They are coming out with another Vance mystery multi-novel collection soon too! Both of the excellent Sheriff Joe Bain novels (the 26 copy leather bound edition, which I’m sure sold out in 5 seconds, also contains the outline for the third unpublished novel; the regular edition does not) plus one other novel.
As the outline is in the Underwood Miller Vance bibliography I didn’t bother with the leather edition (couldn’t afford it anyway).
Thanks for the heads-up, Stan. I’m ordering that Vance mystery collection NOW! Like you, I’ll skip the leather bound edition.
I was just on Amazon and found that all of Vance’s mysteries are now available on Kindle for $5.99 each. Many of these were only published in limited Underwood-Miller editions and reprinted only by the VIE.
If you are a Vance fan this is a real find . . .
I’m downloading those Vance mysteries to my iPad, Stan. Thanks again! You’re really on top of things!
Odd, though, that Sub is calling Vance’s 1970s work “early”…THE DOGTOWN TOURIST AGENCY was published in EPOCH, which had an Early A. A. Attanasio story, but not exactly early work by the likes of Vance…
I thought the same thing, Todd. THE DOGTOWN TOURIST AGENCY is my favorite story in DREAM CASTLES. But, as you point out, 1970s isn’t really “early.” This is a wonderful book!
Unless that was a trunk story finally rescued by Silverberg and Elwood…
THE DOGTOWN TOURIST AGENCY could be a trunk story, Todd. But it’s awfully good to be a languishing in a drawer.
I have the first volume, so far unread, but will get to it one day, now that I’ve stopped buying new and am reading the huge backlog.
You might want to consider breaking your ban on buying books, Rick. DREAM CASTLES is terrific! It needs to be in your collection. And, it will sell out soon!