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Message: <blockquote data-quote="random user" data-source="post: 1503842" data-attributes="member: 16581">Well but the ideas can spur plots based on it which previously were inconceivable.  The earth revolving around the sun is an idea, but a story based on such an idea did not exist before that idea existed.While a generalized "magic" of spirits coming into your body has existed for a while, the specific use of nanotechnology to enter our blood stream, stitch up and fix parts of our bodies, I bet is a fairly new one (comparatively speaking).By definition I can't come up with an example of a plot that hasn't been invented yet.  It's like trying to imagine calculus before it was invented.  Or trying to imagine the chemical structure of benzene before it was discovered.  We've come up with plots to relating to everything we currently know.  But, unless you are willing to say we know everything, by definition there is stuff we don't know.  If there is still stuff we don't know, then there is a good chance new plots can be made of that information once it is discovered.I do agree though that if you reduce everything to its most base concept of "Something happens" then yes, every plot is (probably) known.</blockquote>