"Dream Children" is the title story in Godwin's story collection Dream Children (1976). The other stories in that collection are: "False Lights," "Some Side Effects of Time Travel," "Nobody's Home," "My Lover, His Summer Vacation," "Interstices," "The Legacy of the Motes," "Why Does a Great Man Love?" "Death in Puerto Vallarta," "An Intermediate Stop," "A Sorrowful Woman," "Layover," "The Woman Who Kept Her Poet," "Indulgences," and "Notes for a Story." In different ways, commentators on Godwin have remarked on her female protagonists' attempts to cope with (stringent) demands on them by family, contemporary society, and other outside sources, while at the same time utilizing all the powers available to them to define and assert their selfhood in the face of discouraging opposition. In short, these women insist on making a life for themselves. Perhaps the best comparisons with "Dream Children" to be found among the other titles...