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 unhappy student steals a gem. a hypocritical humanoid hamster saves the day by using the power of pop music.

An alien dissident builds towers all over the world to control people's minds. a robot humanoid animal saves the day by doing what they'd vowed never to do again.

When a robot is kidnapped & imprisoned in a pit, he is interrogated & probed by aliens.

A story about two white guys who fight each other for a lover.

Two clones become stranded on a desert robot planet. When they run out of supplies, one is forced to eat the other to survive.

A story about a witty gadget inventor who inherits an entire tiny universe in a jar but a group of angry black women want it instead.

A cyborg begins to experience memories of a past life in which it was a schoolteacher.

When a kind old man finds himself trapped in a Japanese internment camp, he finds a tunnel built by underground creatures.

After doing battle with an enemy spaceship in a remote star system, The USS Uranus crash-lands on a low-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 story about a dangerous talking dog who has to protect a microbiologist, from a gang of psycho ex-zombies with a weapon that can destroy a whole city.

When two robotic time travellers fall in love, they are forbidden to see each other. They decide to escape to the homeworld of their deadliest enemy.

A ship carrying a cargo of deactivated robots crash-lands on a rocky planet. Only two of the crew survive, but they activate the robots to help them survive. The robots build a teleporter, but need the Humans to collect the raw materials.

Dave Lawson was on a path to obscurity, until they were bitten by a radioactive cat & developed the ability to make visions come to life.

A story about two princes who enter a marathon.

When two educated athletes fall in love, they are forbidden to see each other. They decide to live underground.