When you say 'I think it's because there don't seem to be a whole lot of new ideas for me to find in fiction anymore' you're on to something. From http://hnlk.

When you say 'I think it's because there don't seem to be a whole lot of new ideas for me to find in fiction anymore' you're on to something. From http://hnlk.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/you-mean-its-all-been-written-before/ http://hnlk.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/you-mean-its-all-been-w... The last script writer/novelist on Earth committed suicide. Every conceivable plot had already been conceived, written and published. Every story remade twice over, rebooted, adapted, re-imagined, reinterpreted, stolen, sequeled or turned into trilogies, double trilogies or franchises that kept going where they had gone before. Every cartoon and comic book hero had his/her own movie trilogy. The chain of suicides, however, had not started until the advent of the Internet Plot Database. AJAX programmer and Star Trek fan Ziek Omeldoff in writing what appeared to him at the time as an innocuous little web application, did not know he was in fact heralding the end of literature, especially the genre of science fiction that he so loved. The IPDB rivaled the famed Wackypidea in its community driven model and Goggle in its search capability. Every conceivable plot was indexed, cross referenced and searchable by idea, time, setting and a myriad of other simultaneous parameters.