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
A story about a cheeky prisoner who is given a gun that creates a black hole, but has to escape from a gang of psycho alien doctors who want it for themselves.
Aamir Khan unexpectedly becomes ambassador for Earth while he's drunk, & has to negotiate with powerful aliens who want to destroy Humanity.
An unknown alien intelligence establishes a base on Titania. Unable to communicate with the aliens, the UK Government send a small team to deal with the threat. Before they are able to destroy the base, the team learn what the aliens are really doing on Titania; they are building a giant weapon.
When a rich explorer travels to a privately owned planet in search of power, he ends up owing money to a gang.
When an alien trainee astronaut travels to an unexplored world in search of his estranged parents, he's kidnapped by pirates.
After doing battle with an enemy spaceship in a remote star system, The Thorn crash-lands on a jungle planet. When the surviving crew scout the area around the crash site, they are surprised to discover that the enemy vessel has also crashed. The two crews will have to work together to survive.
A powerful company director creates thousands of clones to control the world. a hypocritical TV presenter saves the day by distracting the villain for long enough.
Barbara Morton was on a path to obscurity, until they were bitten by a radioactive cat & developed the ability to move through walls like a ghost.
Martin Sherman was on a path to obscurity, until they were bitten by a radioactive water vole & developed the ability to see people's inner desires.
When a scientist is trapped in a British internment camp, he tries to build a time machine using scrap components.
A story about an average neanderthal who has to protect a hologram from psycho computer programmers.
After a number of suspicious deaths in a small European town, an assertive time traveller is suspected of murder.
Two vampires become stranded on a high-gravity fortress. When they run out of supplies, one is forced to eat the other to survive.
In the near future, a bio-chemist creates a virus that can destroy a whole city. When it is stolen by alien wizards, she must try & stop it by any means necessary.
A story about a witty jobless person who steals a treasure chest & has to escape with it.