“…Although dystopia has its origins in utopia (Zhurkova, 2018;Zhurkova & Khomutnikova, 2019), we contend that such differential features as prospectivity, anthropocentrism, a typical set of characters, the concealment of history, total government control (quite often manifested in a policing language), as well as the division of the dystopian timeline by a certain event into "before" and "after", are reasons to consider dystopia as a separate literary genre.…”