conuly

I think this is an issue only because the word historical has acquired a very specific and narrower than necessary meaning in the public sphere (i.e. works written about a more distant past where the author is filling in a lot of blanks and unknowns). I am OK with keeping the current label for "realistic contemporary fiction" even 50 or 200 years later. It's not as if people will get confused about when the fiction was actually written based on that sole label alone. For a librarian or an indexer, the issue is a bit more nuanced, but I am sure solvable.