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|cover=Cover_Dreamer.jpg
|setting = ''Standalone''
|publisher = Ace Books
|ISBN = 978-0425256879
|word-count = 4,323
}}{{for|Dreamer (character)|the viewpoint character of this story|pre=This page is about the short horror story}}
'''''Dreamer''''' is a non-cosmere short horror story by [[Brandon Sanderson]] that first appeared in the ''[http://tonikelner.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/games-creatures-play/ Games Creatures Play]'' anthology, edited by [[Wikipedia: Charlaine Harris|Charlaine Harris]] and [[Wikipedia: Toni Kelner|Toni Kelner]]. It is set on Earth and told from the first person perspective of [[Dreamer (character)|the eponymous character]], who is part of a group of dead gamers, [[Poltergeist|poltergeists]] that must possess the bodies of living people. They use their abilities to play extreme, real-life versions of games like "capture the flag" and "cops and robbers," showing little regard for collateral damage among the living.
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{{quote|In ''New York Times'' #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson's "Dreamer," a game of cops and robbers is a new challenge when the players are able to switch bodies at will.|''Games Creatures Play'' inside flap}}
Dreamer pursues Phi to the top of a building and tackles him off before he can reach Longshot. Both police officers die in the fall, leaving Dreamer with no bodies left to use. In poltergeist form, he holds Phi back from possessing his final body long enough for [[Rabies]] to take it into custody, causing Phi to lose the game. Phi complains that Dreamer cheated by firing into the crowd and Longshot says that they should ban guns. The group decides to meet up in New Jersey to get away from the carnage they caused in Manhattan. Dreamer agrees to a footrace with Phi as their rivalry continues.{{book ref|dreamer}}
== Main Characters ==
;[[Dreamer (character)|Dreamer]]* :Part of a group of poltergeists that play games by possessing the living. He is determined to catch and beat his older brother Phi as the "detective" in a game of cops and robbers since Phi always seems to get the best of him.
;[[Phi]] :Dreamer's older brother. Even before they died and became poltergeists, Phi was competitive, disliked losing, and could always slip away from difficult situations. He brags to the gaming group of poltergeists that he could take them all on himself, leading them to play a 1-on-5 game of cops and robbers.
== Development ==
When Charlaine Harris approached Brandon about writing a short story for ''Games Creatures Play'', he immediately wanted to be a part of the project after hearing the concept. He had never written a horror story before, so he thought of the scariest thing he could imagine, which was the kids who play Xbox having control over real peoples' lives. This concept became the seed for ''Dreamer'', which Brandon considers different from any of his other writing.{{url ref|url=https://brandonsanderson.com/games-creatures-play-is-out-this-week/|text=Games Creatures Play is Out This Week|site=Brandon Sanderson Blog|date=2014-4-3}}{{wob ref|3138}} He has mentioned that he likes detective stories, which is why ''Dreamer'' has its roots in the genre, along with ''[[Snapshot]]'' and
== Publication History ==
;First Electronic Edition (distributed in the Brandon Sanderson Humble Book Bundle):April 2017 - Dragonsteel Entertainment{{url ref|url=https://brandonsanderson.com/the-brandon-sanderson-humble-book-bundle/|text=The Brandon Sanderson Humble Book Bundle|site=Brandon Sanderson Blog|date=2017-4-14}}
;Con-Exclusive Hardcover Edition (bundled with ''[[Snapshot]]''):2017 - Dragonsteel Entertainment{{url ref|url=http://store.brandonsanderson.com/snapshot-dreamer-hardcover/|text=Snapshot/Dreamer Hardcover|site=Brandon Sanderson Store}}
{{for|/Covers|a cover gallery of Dreamer}}▼
== Trivia ==
* As of December 2017, ''Dreamer''
* Brandon has said that he occasionally thinks about going back to the setting of ''Dreamer'', but that he hasn't found the right thing to do with it because it's so different from the rest of his writing.{{wob ref|8761}}
* In August of 2013, Brandon released [
▲==Cover Art Gallery==
▲{{for|/Covers|a cover gallery of Dreamer}}
== Notes ==
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