TOPOI

notion of other worlds (continents, moon, planets, solar systems, flat worlds etc.) there is often a technology allowing one to "translate" between these worlds (ships, spacesh...

time slow-down / time acceleration time dilation time machines and time loops pre-cognition and post-cognition reversal of 2nd Law of Thermodynamics / axis of time mismatch...

parallel worlds / universes / multiverses uchronias / alternative history worlds dreams, hallucinations, psychoses, altered states of consciousness post-death, pre-birth / pr...

new sources of energy / new access to known sources of energy (nuclear fusion, rain energy) new means of storing energy other forms of energy (e.g. Elan Vitale, Force, Kundali...

body extensions: protesis, (trans|im)plants, new body parts, exoskelets, nanotech biochemical modifications (drugs, genetics) sex, androgyny, kink transcende...

animals, past animals (mammooths, dinos), hybrids (centaurs, pegasus) , aliens mutants; possible evolutionary developments (e.g. speaking poodles, planet of apes) symbiosis, p...

reactivated social forms already known from history (tribe-like communities, matriarchy, kingdom, empire, slavery) extrapolations of existing trends (surveillance paranoia stat...

humans create something "to their image" creation surpasses its creatorsomething (a glitch, a divine intervention, a spark of empathy) happensa conflict betw...