Current status, development and reserch of alternative history as metagenre

Structure of modern text demonstrates a new understanding of the traditional principle of reflection. Thanks to this mimetic attraction the story gets to a new syncretism level "text-idea." It lies in the recovering the series of moments of life which have been seen or imagined by the author and displayed using artistic means and genre models. With the special way it change the genre its modern condition and realized itself in the new form. This article deals with alternative history genre genesis and Ukrainian alternative novels in world literary context, its particular, aesthetic, thematic, genre features of science fiction, connection with the typical Ukrainian novel.Special characters of Alternative history genre are combined in modern postmodern novel and use it like form for new sense. This refers to the approach of literature to document, to the real fact and the creation of the impression of extracre-dibility through direct imitation of linguistic and cultural code of journalism.Criticism of society is the most significant motif of creativity in AH various formal and semantic schemes of the fiction novels. For ex. in the frame of an ironic writer gives a long-term scheme of the internal economic and legal slavery of the citizens of their country. Social and socio-psychological topics are among of interest to authors of fiction genres and alternative history of the last century.