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Before dick wolf before dceu before mcu before tolkien and others, what was the first fiction universe that was created? Or is the idea of a fictional universe a "new age" thing?

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Before dick wolf before dceu before mcu before tolkien and others, what was the first fiction universe that was created? Or is the idea of a fictional universe a "new age" thing?

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AskHistorians@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days ago

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Sherlock Holmes had a developed canon.

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