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There are some arguments about how to define historical fiction. We can consider a historical novel to be any novel set in a time before the author was born. According to the Historical Novel Society, for a novel to be considered historical, it must have been written "at least fifty years after the events described, or have been written by someone who was not alive at the time of those events (who therefore approaches them only by research)." The society also considers alternate histories, time-travel novels, historical fantasies, and multiple-time novels to be historical. Read more about defining "historical" on the Historical Novel Society's page Defining the Genre.

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Defining the genre. Retrieved December 10, 2008, from Historical Novel Society Web site: http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/definition.htm


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