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The Laconic states that it’s for “works set in the (then) recent past, which I personally believe can cover anything from “a few years” to “around 60-70 years”. Not sure where you heard that historical fiction is anything set more than 50 years before the release date; Wikipedia defines it as simply “a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past”.
back lolWikipedia cites the following:
I read that historical fiction is anything set more than 50 years before the release date. Is 20 Minutes Into the Past for anything set less than 50 years ago, or is there a different cutoff?