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This paper explores the ways in which Salman Rushdie uses the technique of fantasy as an alternative discourse aimed at countering the dominance of truth and the imperial system of surveillance in his latest novel Quichotte. Rushdie’s 14th novel, a postcolonial version of Miguel de Cervantes’s classic Don Quixote, also appropriates the ancient Indian concept of maya as well as Jean Baudrillard’s notion of hyperreal and simulacrum in order to explore the possibility of escaping from the crisis of Western civilization and ultimately creating an alternative world. The paper shows how the deployment of fantasy is instrumental in empowering postcolonial immigrants to resist the hegemonic truth and the insidious surveillance system controlled by digital media and drugs in the U.S. Based on this, it argues that Rushdie’s fantasy contributes to raising the prospect of creating a counter space in reality for them, as opposed to Baudrillard’s pessimistic view of the future dominated by digital technology.