: What genre mixes History and Time Travel? I am trying to write a time-travel short story about two real people from history. The individuals are Jack Sheppard, a robber notorious for being

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Anything with time-travel in it is automatically going to be considered either sci-fi or fantasy (depending on the mechanics of the time travel). This is not necessarily a bad thing, since there's much more of a short-story market for such stories than for straight historical fiction.

If do you want to avoid this categorization, however, I'd advise you to reconsider whether or not the time travel aspects are actually essential to your story.

In passing, it's worth noting that unless a time-travel story is exclusively about the future, it will necessarily mix in history.

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Genre is merely a case of marketing and terminology, but I would assume it's a mixture of Science Fiction (soft, if the time travel mechanics aren't well-explained) and Historical Fiction.

A (poor) example of this is the book A Symphony of Echoes. It's a 'funny' romp detailing the adventures of a government-mandated group of time-travelling historians.

It's a shame everyone's an asshole, antagonists appear and die without the audience ever knowing who they are or why we should hate them when they're just as, if not less, insufferable as the protagonists, and none of the people seem like they'd be trusted by a government not to mess up history.

But honestly, as bad as the book is, it's marketed as sci-fi. I think that's always a safe bet.

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