Title: Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay

Title: Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay Title Record # 52301
Author: Robert Sheckley
Date: 1967-02-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Note: Frederik Pohl included this story in his 1982 anthology "Yesterday's Tomorrows". His introduction to this story (P 272 & 273) notes that Sheckley had been struggling with writer's block, and was halfway through a novel he could not finish. Pohl was allowed to read that 1/2, and he "perceived that one of the chapters needed only tiny changes to become a story in itself". He pointed this out to Sheckley, who turned in "Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay" and Pohl published it in Galaxy. Although not noted by Pohl, much of the text from "Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay" is included in the 1968 Sheckley novel, "Dimension of Dreams" as substantial portions of Chapters 22 and 23. I assume this is the novel Sheckley was struggling with.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1968	French	Cité aux pieds d'argile
1968^ⓘTranslated by Hilja Brinis	Italian	La città premurosa
1969^ⓘTranslated by <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Clark%20Darlton&type=Name&mode=exact">Clark Darlton</a> (as Walter Ernsting) and/or <a href="http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Thomas%20Schl%FCck&type=Name&mode=exact">Thomas Schlück</a> (<i>Galaxy 12</i> only supplies one credit for the entire anthology)	German	Die perfekte Stadt
1974	Hungarian	Az álmok városa agyaglábakon
1975^ⓘTranslated by Dolf Strasser.	German	Träume auf tönernen Füssen
1976^ⓘTranslated by Damir Mikuličić	Croatian	Grad snova
1982^ⓘTranslated by <A href="http:///www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?145853">Joachim Körber</a>.	German	Beinahe ein Paradies

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Galaxy Magazine, February 1968	1968-02-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Galaxy Publishing Corporation		$0.60^?$: US dollar	196	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Bodé^?Bode
World's Best Science Fiction: 1969	1969-05-00	ed. Terry Carr, Donald A. Wollheim	Ace Books (World's Best Science Fiction #5)	91352	$0.95^?$: US dollar	380	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	John Schoenherr
World's Best Science Fiction 1969	1969-09-00	ed. Terry Carr, Donald A. Wollheim	Ace Books / SFBC (World's Best Science Fiction #5)	1908		381	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Speculations	1973-00-00	ed. Thomas E. Sanders	Glencoe Press		$6.95^?$: US dollar	xvii+ 621	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction	1974-01-00	ed. Jack Dann	Harper & Row	0-06-010944-0	$6.95^?$: US dollar	x+ [2]+ 239+ [1]	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Mark Rubin
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow ...	1974-02-07	ed. Bonnie L. Heintz, Frank Herbert, Donald A. Joos, Jane Agorn McGee	Holt, Rinehart and Winston	0-03-010796-2		x+ 619	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction	1974-05-00	ed. Jack Dann	Harper & Row / SFBC	6149	$1.98^?$: US dollar	244	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Mark Rubin
The Liberated Future	1974-12-00	ed. Robert Hoskins	Fawcett Crest	Q2329	$1.50^?$: US dollar	304	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Oscar Liebman
Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction	1975-00-00	ed. Jack Dann	The Woburn Press	0-7130-0141-0	£3.50^?£: UK pound	240	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Lawrence Edwards
Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction	1975-11-00	ed. Jack Dann	Pocket Books	0-671-78789-6	$1.50^?$: US dollar	254	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Charles Moll
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow ...	1976-00-00	ed. Bonnie L. Heintz, Frank Herbert, Donald A. Joos, Jane Agorn McGee	Holt, Rinehart and Winston	0-03-010796-2		x+ 619	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
The City: 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction	1976-07-00	ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph Olander	Fawcett Crest	0-449-22892-4	$1.95^?$: US dollar	304	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Larry Kresek
Yesterday's Tomorrows	1982-10-00	ed. Frederik Pohl	Berkley Books	0-425-05648-1	$9.95^?$: US dollar	xiv+ 431	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction	1998-04-00	ed. Jack Dann	Jewish Lights Publishing	1-58023-005-9	$16.95^?$: US dollar	240	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Michael Bogdanow
Galaxy's Edge, Issue 9: July 2014	2014-07-00	ed. Mike Resnick	Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick	978-1-61242-213-8	$3.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	mag
Galaxy's Edge, Issue 9: July 2014	2014-07-00	ed. Mike Resnick	Arc Manor/Phoenix Pick	978-1-61242-212-1	$6.99^?$: US dollar	124	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	mag
Masters of Science Fiction: Robert Sheckley	2022-02-00	Robert Sheckley	Centipede Press (Masters of Science Fiction (Centipede Press))	978-1-61347-311-5	$65.00^?$: US dollar	727	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Jim Keegan , Ruth Keegan

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