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"http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/information/entry/fantastic_fiction" class="copylinks">Fantasy Writing In particular, his stories — together with those of CS Lewis — were among the first to establish the convention of an alternative world or universe as the setting for Speculative Fiction Most early modern writing that shared elements of Tolkien's style, such as the Science Fiction of HG Wells or the Gothic Romances of Mary Shelley, were set in a world that is recognizably that of the author and introduced only a single fantastic element Tolkien departed from this, creating an entirely new world-setting in elaborate detail He emphasized on several occasions in his private writing, however, that his stories about Middle-earth were to be taken as part of the ancient history of our own planet {{cite book last = Tolkien first = JRR editor=Humphrey Carpenter title = The Letters of JRR Tolkien
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