Historical fiction

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictitious plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.

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Image: Henri-Désiré Porret / After Tony Johannot, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.