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
On an abandoned moon, the crew of The Mars Starfarer explores the bones of a dead alien giant.
A story about two military generals who compete in a race to build the best spacestation.
After doing battle with an enemy spaceship in a remote star system, The Carolina crash-lands on a water 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.
When a normal Human travels to a snow covered robot planet in search of his lost pet, he is kidnapped and imprisoned in an abandoned prison, he must win the trust of his captor in order to escape.
After a number of suspicious deaths on an alien planet, an average clinically obese person is suspected of murder.
Under the sea, the crew of The Rimward Merrimac explores an abandoned spacestation.
Two athletes become stranded on a cold continent. When they run out of supplies, one is forced to eat the other to survive.
A story about two thugs who fight each other in a race to build the best spacestation.
When an unhappy clinically obese person travels to a far away colony in search of a powerful ally, he adopts a false identity and finds himself in trouble with the law.
When a hispanic man travels to a mysterious spaceship in search of his missing sister, he adopts a false identity and finds himself in trouble with the law.
A story about two alien wizards whose new pet is a little bit unusual....
A ship carrying a cargo of deactivated robots crash-lands on a dead planet. Only two of the crew survive, but they activate the robots to help them survive. The robots dig a tunnel for them all to take shelter.
A story about two cleaners who risk everything to build the best robot.
When a celebrity chef finds himself trapped in a cage, he tries to build a weapon using what he can find laying around.
An unknown alien intelligence establishes a base on Neptune. Unable to communicate with the aliens, the Space Force 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 Neptune; they are building a portal to another universe.