Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
George R. R. MartinHistorical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.
George R. R. Martin