This article analyzes four distinct examples of jihad fiction : Aqua by Jean-Marc Ligny ; After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun ; Lament for the Fallen and Our Memory like Dust by Gavin Chait. Based on cross-readings of these four novels, it questions the effort of fiction to grasp a future on which weighs, among other things, the jihadist threat, which carries with it the risk of an African dystopia. It is therefore a question of examining the resources summoned by fiction to counter the terrorist risk and its media omnipresence and perhaps convert dystopia into utopia, by resorting to the mechanism of retrovolution or space evasion.