This paper proposes a reflection based on two research questions: a) Would it be possible to observe, by resorting to an empirical-descriptive analysis, the existence of correlations between different levels of consecration or aes-thetic-symbolic capital, ascribed to literary works and their authors, and the (greater or lesser) frequency of orality marks by way of representing linguis-tic variation in fictional dialogues in translated fiction? b) Could we consider that both translators and publishing editors may project likely target-audi-ences for certain literary works and that such projection may have any influ-ence on the way in which these works might be translated in regard to the representation of linguistic variation in fictional dialogues? This paper pre-sents results of an ongoing research that seeks to answer these questions by analyzing, both qualitatively and quantitatively (by means of Wordsmith Tools 7), the occurrences of orality marks (diaphasic variation) in fictional dialogues of two science fiction novels to which it has been ascribed distinct levels of aesthetic-symbolic capital: the cult fiction Andróides sonham com ovelhas elétricas?, by Philip K. Dick (2017), and the spin-off Star Wars: provação, by Troy Denning (2015), both published by Aleph in Brazil (a science fiction publisher), and translated by Ronaldo Bressane and Alexandre Mandarino, respectively.