This article discusses social science fiction in T. Malik's work, its underlying genre of dystopia, and realistic interpretation. The author's novel "The Idiot" is used as the object of analysis. Dystopia is a fantasy genre that Uzbek writers have almost never touched, and we find features of this genre in T. Malik's novel "The Idiot." Life on the planet Tang in the novel Distopy is either a misguided utopia or a utopian society that works only for certain layers.

In the novel, realistic reality and a fantastic plot are carried out in parallel. The point of their intersection is represented by the image of an alien. This style in "Devona" is the same as social fantasy recognized in world literature. Rhaq, sent to Earth as a researcher from the planet Tang, acts as a perpendicular line intersecting these two parallel lines, that is, historical reality and fantastic fiction. In the novel, the events of 1917-1921 in Bukhara and the Fergana Valley, the events of the repression period of 1938-1939 are connected and compared with the dystopian life on the imaginary planet Tang through the two-time trip of a crisis cosmonaut named Rhaq to Earth to study the planet Earth.

In the dystopia of the novel, there is a method of warning about the terrible future of humanity, which is striving for scientific and technological progress, but is moving away from its identity and human values, reaching the peak of development and experiencing a decline in human feelings. On the example of the characters of Kholikberdi Tura and Norkhoja in the novel, the prototypes of the kurbashis Madaminbek and Kholkhoja Eshon, who fought for national liberation, are depicted. The article clarifies the historical truth about the leaders Kholkhoja and Shermat, which was changed during the Soviet period, based on several historical sources.