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
When a workaholic clinically obese person finds himself trapped in an alien pit, he meets other captives & starts to build an army.
On a floating island, the crew of The Fearless explores the bones of a dead alien giant.
A tree begins to experience memories of a past life in which it was a spaceship captain.
When a sad TV presenter travels to a distant fortress in search of his missing wife, he becomes entangled in a cult.
Two astronauts become stranded on a hot world. When they run out of supplies, one is forced to eat the other to survive.
Nathaniel Barton was on a path to obscurity, until they were bitten by a radioactive otter & developed the ability to make visions come to life.
A ship carrying a cargo of deactivated robots crash-lands on a robot planet. Only two of the crew survive, but they activate the robots to help them survive. The robots find instructions carved into a cave wall, & start to build what is inscribed.
A story about two unemployed people who meet a scientist who things she can bring dead people back to life.
In the near future, a bio-chemist creates a virus that turns people to stone. When it is stolen by spaceship captains, she must try & stop it by any means necessary.
Two Humans with special abilities become stranded on a sandy theme park. When they run out of supplies, one is forced to eat the other to survive.
In the near future, a microbiologist creates a device that makes people disappear. When her creation falls into the hands of the Chinese Military she realises she needs to destroy it.
A story about two cyborgs who try to murder each other to save their spouses.
When a captain travels to an alien spacestation in search of a spaceship, he becomes infected with a deadly alien virus.
A programmed VR character begins to experience memories of a past life in which it was a prince.
An unknown alien intelligence establishes a base on Charon. Unable to communicate with the aliens, the Air 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 Charon; they are there to defend the Earth from another hostile species.