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The year is 1945. An new Oxford Professor by the name of J.R.R Tolkien passes away in a freak accident, leaving his greatest work unfinished. Elsewhere, a pilot by the name of Gene Roddenberry dies in a crash. What happens in Pop Culture without these two men's influences? No Lord of the Rings means that Fantasy as we know it is vastly changed and no Star Trek means much the same for Sci-Fi. How does the history of Speculative Fiction as a whole develop with its two greatest progenitors dead? Your thoughts?
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