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Political fiction is a subgenre of fiction that deals with political affairs. Political fiction has often used narrative to provide commentary on political events, systems and theories. Works of political fiction often "directly criticize an existing society or... present an alternative, sometimes fantastic, reality." (1)

Prominent pieces of political fiction have included the anti-communist dystopias of the early 20th century. Equally influential, if not more so, however, have been earlier pieces of political fiction such as Gulliver's Travels (1726), Candide (1759) and Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).

The Republic (ca. 360 BCE) by Plato

Panchatantra (ca. 200 BCE) by Vishnu Sarma

Utopia (1516) by Thomas More
The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys (1578) by Jan Kochanowski

Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes
Simplicissimus (1668) by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan

Persian Letters (1721) by Montesquieu
Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
Candide (1759) by Voltaire
Fables and Parables (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki
The Return of the Deputy (1790), by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

Barnaby Rudge (1841) by Charles Dickens
The Betrothed (1842) by Alessandro Manzoni
Coningsby (novel) (1844) by Benjamin Disraeli
Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) by Benjamin Disraeli
Tancred (1847) by Benjamin Disraeli
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
The Palliser novels (1864–1879) by Anthony Trollope
War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
Looking Backward (1888) by Edward Bellamy
Pharaoh (1895) by Bolesław Prus

Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka
The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (1932) by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (1945) by George Orwell
All the King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell
Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand
The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon
Advise and Consent (1959) by Allen Drury
Seven Days in May (1962) by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey
Primary Colors (1996) by Joe Klein (as "Anonymous")

The Gospel According To Larry (2003) by Janet Tashjian
The Polity of Beasts (2007), by Renald Iacovelli

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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974) by Ursula Le Guin
The Mars trilogy (1990s) by Kim Stanley Robinson

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