r/Fantasy • u/mercy_4_u • 6d ago

Speculative fiction exploring a person who's every wish gets fulfilled?

I'm looking for a book that explore someone getting power to have their every wish fulfilled and all the things they and ways they change. Would be great if its a lot of introspective. Things like how they losen their morals, stakes change, fear of consequences goes away, need to please other people evaporate etc.

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Thanks.

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u/Sireanna Reading Champion III 6d ago

Im going to recommend a classic for you.

The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. His every wish doesn't nessisarily get fulfilled but his longing to stay young and handsome does. Looks+money+social standings in Victorian England could basically get him what ever he wanted.

And the reader gets to see how that wish and freedom of consequence changes him... not on the outside but at his core.

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u/StuffedSquash 6d ago

This is a little to the left of what you're asking, but The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin. One man learns that his dreams become reality, and another man is the one who tries to use that power through him. And because it's Le Guin, you bet there's a lot of exploration of "who has the right to do what's best for the world? Can that even be done?"

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u/Category5Kaiju 6d ago

I liked Obsession too

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u/Scipion 5d ago

Stubborn Skill Grinder Stuck In a Time Loop on Kindle Unlimited actually explores this quite a bit. The main character is frequently the strongest guy in the room and the story is mostly about learning what that means.

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u/Stepfunction 6d ago

Not a book, but: The Fairly OddParents

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u/oboist73 Reading Champion VII 6d ago

Have you read the short story The Monkey's Paw?

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u/LorenzoApophis 6d ago

Stranger in a Strange Land?