Best Fantasy Of The 2020s Novels & Stories

It's all a fantasy. Fable has been my escape. An unhealthy one. A safe pretend world where I could bury myself. Just like how Zee cried after she finished the final Harry Potter book, or how Jamie bases so much of her worth on the fictional version of herself that lives across a thousand Instagram pics, in the comments and likes of a thousand strangers. Just carefully constructed lies to comfort and lull. Dreams.

"Okay, so if similar dreams attract each other, and a lot of people dream about sex, for example..." Julia grinned. "Well done. Yes, there are some really big dreamscapes devoted to very common dreams. They tend to persist as well, because there's always someone sleeping, and having that kind of dream. Some of them are very old. There's a dreamscape of an orgy that we're pretty sure has been going since at least the Greek Classic period, and there's a nightmare dreamscape that probably first emerged back in the Palaeolithic era." "Wow! Can we go visit some?"

They worked tirelessly to mend the wounds of the past and create a future where every being could thrive. On the radiant moon of Elysium, a young dreamweaver named Lyra harnessed the power of dreams to unite the minds of her people. Through the hero's legacy, she discovered that the strength of unity could forge a powerful collective consciousness, where hopes and aspirations intertwined to shape their shared destiny.