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

An unknown alien intelligence establishes a base on Saturn. Unable to communicate with the aliens, the US 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 Saturn; they are there to defend the Earth from another hostile species.

A story about two millionaires who become deities for an alien race.

A story about two time travellers who fight with each other over the heir to throne of a vast intergalactic empire.

A story about two dentists who go head to head for the hand of an alien heir.

After a number of suspicious deaths in a towerblock, a workaholic knight is suspected of murder.

A story about a dying stoner who inherits a portal to another universe but a group of angry alien explorers want it instead.

After a number of suspicious deaths on an alien planet, a tired doctor is suspected of murder.

When two alien young boys fall in love, they are forbidden to see each other. They decide to declare war on their culture.

Virgie Irwin was on a path to obscurity, until they were bitten by a radioactive alien & developed the ability to kill people with a single thought.

When a Human travels to a friendly prison planet in search of a mysterious alien artifact, he's chased by monsters.

Two cyborgs become stranded on a hot spaceship. When they run out of supplies, one is forced to eat the other to survive.

In the belly of a giant space whale, the crew of The Scrap Defiant explores the palace of an abandoned civilization.

A story about two thugs who fight each other in a race to build the best spacestation.

A story about two dinosaurs who try to murder each other for a new home after their homeworld was destroyed.

In the near future, a chemist creates a virus that freezes people. When it is stolen by mermaids, she must try & stop it by any means necessary.