Quasirealities as a method of creating future atmosphere in Kir Bulychev's novels "Alice: the girl from the earth" and "Alice's birthday"

This article examines the formation of the genre of science fiction in the USSR on the example of the novel by Kir Bulychev "Alice: The Girl from the Earth" and the story "Alice's Birthday". Methods of creating an atmosphere of the future and an aesthetic image, as well as the linguistic aspects of works from the point of view of representing the concept of "future" in them on the linguistic material of these texts are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the analysis and classification of occasionalisms depicting Bulychev's fantastic worlds and their functioning at all linguistic levels.