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
When a well-loved humanoid hamster travels to a commercial robot planet in search of a good meal, he becomes a target for a mercenary.
Dev Patel has to be shrunk & travel inside himself to cure a disease
A story about a gay male archaeologist who is given a gun that can erase someone from history, but has to escape from a gang of psycho ambassadors who want it for themselves.
An unknown alien intelligence establishes a base on Europa. Unable to communicate with the aliens, the Russian Military 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 Europa; they are building a giant weapon.
After doing battle with an enemy spaceship in a remote star system, The Silver crash-lands on a high-gravity 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 cyborg killing machine plants a bomb in an unknown place in the city. a witty captain saves the day by completing a series of challenges & riddles set by the villain.
A ship carrying a cargo of deactivated robots crash-lands on a hot planet. Only two of the crew survive, but they activate the robots to help them survive. They all become lovers.
A story about two ghosts who discover a powerful cult that attempts to wipe out all life in the universe simultaneously.
A story about an unwashed schoolteacher who has to protect a hologram from psycho celebrity chefs.
When a haunted neanderthal travels to an expensive world in search of money, he ends up owing money to a gang.
A story about a dejected celebrity who inherits a bag of money but a group of angry overweight people want it instead.
In the near future, a bio-engineer creates a clone of herself, she falls in love with it, although society won't accept her.
In the near future, an agronomist creates a gun that changes people's gender. She uses it against her rivals to gain political power, until someone uses it against her.
After a number of suspicious deaths aboard a Chinese spaceship, a debonair foreign scientist is suspected of murder.
A story about two white guys who go head to head over the heir to throne of a vast intergalactic empire.