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 two alien wizards who play dirty in a race to build the best spacestation.
When a humanoid animal travels to an agricultural spaceship in search of a mortgage, he is kidnapped & imprisoned in a nightmarish virtual reality matrix. He realizes that killing himself is the only way to escape.
A ship carrying a cargo of deactivated robots crash-lands on a water planet. Only two of the crew survive, but they activate the robots to help them survive. The robots become overprotective of the Humans, & kill all indigenous wildlife.
A story about an unwashed successful astronaut who inherits a treasure chest but a group of angry kittens want it instead.
When a nurse finds himself trapped on an alien planet, he is rescued by a friendly alien.
A story about a dying sports fan who is given a gun that pauses time, but has to escape from a gang of psycho rich explorers who want it for themselves.
A story about two 3rd level technicians who enter a marathon.
Orbiting a black hole, the crew of The Scrap Hellhound explores a temple where a god-like being grants them 3 wishes.
An unknown alien intelligence establishes a base on Venus. Unable to communicate with the aliens, the US 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 Venus; they are growing giant monsters.
A ship carrying a cargo of deactivated robots crash-lands on a water planet. Only two of the crew survive, but they activate the robots to help them survive. When she spaceship wreckage is discovered 7 years later, the mystery of what happened is uncovered in a series of blood-soaked diary entries.
A story about two ghosts who join the military & are ordered on a suicide mission.
Two injured people become stranded on a cold world. When they run out of supplies, one is forced to eat the other to survive.
When a troubled powerful emperor is imprisoned by terrorists in a cage, he tries to build a time machine using scrap components.
After a number of suspicious deaths on a spacestation, a wisecracking 3rd level technician is suspected of murder.
When a dying military general travels to an uncharted planetoid in search of a powerful ally, he falls in love with an alien.