Is Starif Anoos's "General History of the World" just a science fiction novel rather than a formal history book?

It's not science fiction, it's historical facts.

General History of the World is the author's most important work, which is divided into two volumes:/kloc-the world before 0/500 and/kloc-the world after 0/500. This book is a fascicle of the world after 1500. This book is new in material and covers a wide range. In addition to politics and economy, it also covers military affairs, culture, education, religion, science and technology, population, immigration, ethnic relations, morality and fashion, ideology and other aspects. This book absorbs the new achievements in various fields of world history research in the past twenty years, and describes the world history since the Second World War in a large space. So the whole book is quite novel, lively and realistic. Judging from the content of the text, the author chose the historical materials properly, and briefly described various historical events, discussing them while narrating, with vivid words; From the perspective of writing skills, there is a concise summary before each chapter, which connects the preceding with the following, and it is easy to grasp the clues. At the end of each chapter, there is a bibliography for further research. The book is clear in organization and complete in structure, comparable to a small encyclopedia of world history.