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Social fiction (also called political fiction) is sub- genre of science fiction focused on possible development of societies (most often set in near future or a fictional country), very often dominated by totalitarian governments.

Social fiction was very popular during the Cold War as a satire of the communist rule, on both sides of the Iron Curtain. While the most famous Western social dystopias alluding to the Soviet Union ( Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Huxley's Brave New World) were written in 1930s and 1940s, in countries like Poland the genre was most common in the 1980s among Polish science-fiction writers like Janusz A. ZajdelJanusz Andrzej Zajdel (born on August 15, 1938 in Warsaw July 19, 1985 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish science fiction author. His bibliography includes, apart from numerous short stories and short novels: Cylinder van Troffa (1980) Limes inferior (1982) (Limes Inferior, Paradyzja) or Edmund Wnuk-LipinskiEdmund Wnuk-Lipinski (born in 1944 in Sucha, Poland), professor of Sociology, is the founder and first head of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Political Studies. He was a Fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, the Unversity of No (Apostezjon trilogy). After the fall of communismThis article is about communism as a form of society, as an ideology advocating that form of society, and as a popular movement. For issues regarding the organization of the communist movement, see the Communist party article. For issues regarding one-par, the genre became less popular.

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Science fiction NarratologyNarratology is the theory and study of narrative and narrative structure. External links by Dino Felluga by William Echard, review of A Theory of Musical Semiotics by Eero Tarasti, foreword by Thomas A. by Henry McDonald Narratology.

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