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

In the near future, a rich businesswoman creates a clone of herself, she falls in love with it, although society won't accept her.

When a normal student is kidnapped & imprisoned in a Chinese internment camp, he telepathically chats with a helpful alien.

A cyborg killing machine begins to experience memories of a past life in which it was a smartphone.

When a footballer is kidnapped & imprisoned in an alien prison cell, he finds a tunnel built by underground creatures.

When two busy god-like beings fall in love, they are forbidden to see each other. They decide to escape on a spaceship.

Leola Peters was on a path to obscurity, until they were bitten by a radioactive poodle & developed the ability to see through walls.

Jamie Oliver is cloned, allowing him to be in two places at once, but when the clone is murdered in public, the other has to go into hiding.

In the near future, a microbiologist creates a clone of herself, she falls in love with it, although society won't accept her.

When a dentist is trapped in a Chinese internment camp, he tries to build a weapon using what he can find laying around.

Piers Morgan unexpectedly becomes ambassador for Earth while he's drunk, & has to negotiate with powerful aliens who want to destroy Humanity.

A story about a cheeky 3rd level technician who has to protect a bear from psycho schoolgirls.

An artificial intelligence tries to plant a bomb. a malfunctioning robot con man saves the day by having a vision about the consequences, then taking matters into their own hands when no-one believes them.

A story about two Youtubers who fight a legal battle for mining rights on the planet Mars.

A large alien armada arrives in Earth orbit. The aliens broadcast a message to the world, saying that they intend to nuke our planet unless we give them 3,000 children to take away with them.

After doing battle with an enemy spaceship in a remote star system, The Black Antares crash-lands on a lonely 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.