The last original idea is used in 1881 in Flatland, right? So what about Asimnov, sci-fi, (time travel, Phillip K Dick, the Forever War in particular), and the disutopian stuff?

It was a joke! Just to remind us of how few really creative ideas are born anymore. They all seem to be renditions on the same 6-7 themes.

I felt that he was saying that sci fi stories were largely repetitions of old plot ideas, just set against a different background. Just because I set Romeo And Juliet in New York. or on a spaceship that does not make it an original idea.

Rob

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That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

And 1984 et al?

1984 is just a dystopian view of the future, and as such isn't a new idea, no matter how well written it was.



PSD

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