The herein paper explores dystopian storyworlds in terms of factual narratives. However, the factual element among the fictional world does not necessarily refer to an actual world (e.g. “Our Ford” from the Huxley’s Brave New World). It is rather a being that is claimed to be factual from the fictional universe’s perspective. Hence, a variety of fictional diaries, archival recordings, private notes of fictional characters or definitions from non-existing encyclopedias – however fantastic they may be from the realistic perspective – they are factual in terms of what is real and what is not within the fictional storyworld. Consequently, the Wookiepedia (encyclopedia of Star Wars) is purely fictional within an actual world (however, it still exists in the “real” Internet) but is obviously factual for any citizen of the Star Wars universe. The paper examines how the “factual” narratives existing within the fictional dystopian storyworlds influence the whole story and what are the most popular forms of their appearance in such a novels.
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