fiction - a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on factdystopia - a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror novel - a extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story fantasy, phantasy - fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies" story - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines" utopia - a work of fiction describing a utopia |