The setting for my story is an alternate universe where instead of the French Revolution starting in 1788 it's bumped up 200 years later to 1988. I still want to include some modern versions of some of the events that took place (Taking the Bastille, October Riots etc.) I'd like to know if this is breaking any sort of rule with this genre?
Alternate-History fiction, kind of?
- Thread starter la-gamine
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Well, la-gamine, it would cease to be "historical fiction", if that's what you mean, but it would then be something like "alternative history". That's fine--there's no reason it can't be alternative history.
It would definitely be alternate-history, because pretty much everything that happened in Europe & the places that interacted with Europe (i.e. everywhere) after the French Revolution was either a result (direct/indirect) of the French Revolution or strongly affected by consequences of the French Revolution. I'm curious about your alternate timeline!