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 humanoid hamster is kidnapped & imprisoned in a volcano, he is imprisoned for 15 years, then realises it was all an implanted memory for a crime he committed.

A story about two normal teenagers who accidentally kill Alan Turing & have to continue his invention.

Ricky Gervais is replaced with CGI to change political opinion. The original must fight to be recognised.

Prince George invents a new religion where people have to kill their neighbours. Someone must stop him.

When a humanoid hamster finds himself trapped in a volcano, he is guided through a tunnel by a mysterious voice.

A story about two mermaids who go head to head for the love of a beautiful alien.

The Chinese Emperor has to go inside a mind of a dreaming man, & then inside the mind of a character in the dream.

An unknown alien intelligence establishes a base on Miranda. 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 Miranda; they are building a fleet of hospital ships that will cure the galaxy.

A story about two knights who fight a legal battle for an alien lover.

A story about an unwashed vampire who inherits an alien weapon but a group of angry reality TV stars want it instead.

A story about two geography teachers who are ordered to bomb their hometown to save it from aliens.

When two rude cyborgs fall in love, they are forbidden to see each other. They decide to live online in a virtual reality fantasy world.

Henrietta Hickman was on a path to obscurity, until they were bitten by a radioactive sewer rat & developed the ability to absorb water.

After doing battle with an enemy spaceship in a remote star system, The Real Banshee crash-lands on a hot 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 bored teenager who has to protect an inventor, from a gang of psycho sports fans with a weapon that turns people to stone.