At its most basic, paranoid fiction refers specifically to works about speculations and possible conspiracies by people in power, told by an unreliable narrator.[1] However, the most popular type of paranoid fiction has proved to be one in which the universe appears on the surface to be definite and real, but upon closer inspection, to actually be deceptive and deliberately misleading.[citation needed] In these works, there are either questions raised as to the realness of the world the characters are living in, or a distinction made between a fantasy world and its reality.