Social fiction is a kind of
science fiction literature, popular in
Poland in
1980s.
Books from that genre are based in different time (usually in future) and are dealing with possible development of societies, very often dominated by
totalitarian governments.
The story is usually pretext for analysing structures of those societies, and are usually full of allusions to reality.
Most famous books are by
Janusz A. Zajdel (for example,
Limes Inferior or
Paradyzja).
Social Fiction was a direct reaction to communism, and died by itself when communism collapsed.
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