Random Story Idea Generator
We created this random story idea generator to provide inspiration to science fiction writers, roleplayers, or game makers. While a little imagination is required (as is 99.9% of the creative process), we hope you will find it a useful way to slap your muse around the face and engage your creativity.
The generator will display randomly generated sci-fi plot ideas, useful for short stories, or maybe to inspire a full novel. Simply press the button for more ideas.
Sci-fi Story ideas
Two black women become stranded on a desert planetoid. When they run out of supplies, one is forced to eat the other to survive.
A story about an average vampire who has to protect an emotionless military robot from psycho thugs.
In the near future, an inventor creates a gun that turns people to dust. When her creation falls into the hands of a malevolent alien power, she must fight to stop them using it to destroy humanity. The main character has a mental breakdown and begins to wonder if any of this is really happening.
A psychopath steals a company. a scruffy-looking footballer saves the day by using the power of pop music.
When a drug-addicted powerful emperor is imprisoned by terrorists in the brig of a spacestation, he meets other captives & starts to build an army.
Two asian women become stranded on a water gas giant. When they run out of supplies, one is forced to eat the other to survive.
Ricky Gervais must win an interstellar singing competition to save the Earth.
A large alien armada arrives in Earth orbit. The aliens broadcast a message to the world, saying that they intend to force us into servitude.
A story about a smart-ass rich explorer who has to protect a popular scientist, from a gang of psycho overweight people with a weapon that mind controls people.
In the near future, a microbiologist creates a gun that makes people invincible. She uses it on herself, & the police have to investigate what happened.
When two cyborg explorers fall in love, they are forbidden to see each other. They decide to declare war on their culture.
When a puppy travels to a snow covered factory in search of his missing brother, he's kidnapped by mermaids.
When a schoolteacher travels to an expensive continent in search of power, he is kidnapped and imprisoned in an abandoned prison, he must win the trust of his captor in order to escape.
When a drug-addicted schoolteacher travels to an uncharted island in search of a spaceship, he becomes trapped in a pit.
A story about two teenagers who lead an uprising against the state.