Is it just me or has there been a concerted movement in fiction to write in the present tense. It seems to me that when I was a kid that almost all fiction I read, whether in the first or third person, was almost always written in the past tense. And that was a give-away when you were reading a short story or book written in the first-person, present tense- because that meant the narrator wasn't going to survive.
But recently all the books I've been reading are written in the present tense, whether they be first or third person (and in the Broken Earth series, sometimes for the second person). I actually think it reads better than writing in the past tense, but I just find it weird that I'm only noticing it now. And look, I understand that there's been books written in the present tense forever. But I'm wondering if there was some readjustment that was made in the last 10-15 years where it was considered more appropriate to write in the present tense.
Am I imagining this?