Timeline for How far back is historical fiction?
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| Jun 20, 2022 at 22:10 | vote | accept | empty | ||
| Jun 1, 2022 at 18:08 | comment | added | Amadeus | @StuartF Fiction set to include very recent events is more accurately characterized as just unqualified "fiction". If (upon publication) readers cannot distinguish between the time period of the story and their own time period, they are just reading fiction, not historical fiction. Most fiction written is necessarily a year or more between writing and publication and won't include references to the most recent events in the real world. That doesn't make it all "historical fiction". | |
| Jun 1, 2022 at 17:49 | comment | added | Stuart F | I'd say that you can have historical fiction set in the very recent past. Historical fiction can have various forms: it can refer either to fiction which describes particular historical events (which could include very recent events), or fiction which is set in the past and emphasises the difference between a historical period and the present day (as Amadeus describes). | |
| May 29, 2022 at 9:46 | history | answered | Amadeus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |