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- You volunteer to take part in a study on human interaction. Little do you know that the study is part of an elaborate plan by a group of aliens to invade Earth.
- It is the year 3000, and Earth has changed a lot. Describe some of these changes?
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- Your billionaire uncle gives you a hi-tech robot for your birthday. What do you do with the robot?
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- What if the sun began to die, and surviving humans traveled back into time to survive?
- What if the sun began to die, and surviving humans traveled to another dimension to survive?
- A scientist clones his family that died in an airplane crash — but soon learns the repercussions of playing God.
- Earth suffers a planet-wide EMP surge, and all technology is lost forever.
Prepare to kick your writing into gear by browsing through our list of 200+ Science Fiction short story ideas. New prompts are added each week, and you can search by genre.
May 31, 2018 · Find inspiration for your sci fi stories with these prompts about the environment, AI, genetics, time travel, and more. Explore questions about society, humanity, and relationships in different futuristic worlds and scenarios.
- Aliens
- Alternate History
- Alternate/Parallel Universe
- Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic
- Biopunk
- Children's Story
- Colonization
- Comedy
- Cyberpunk
- Dying Earth
This subgenre features extraterrestrials and contains themes such as fear of the "other," intergalactic war, and discovery of/communication with other sentient beings. 1. A sentient being has landed on your planet and your civilization's military has confronted it at the landing site of its ship. You are sent closer as a mediator and encounter a ma...
If you enjoy "what if" scenarios and are a history buff, you'll find a lot you'll like about this subgenre, which offers an alternate take on or outcome for historical events. 1. In 1962, despite his best efforts, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was unable to reach an agreement with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, which led to the launching of a si...
This subgenre of Science Fiction offers a glimpse of an alternate plane of existence co-existing with our own present reality. 1. On vacation, a family spends a couple of nights at an old Irish castle which has been converted into a hotel. While exploring the castle and the grounds, two siblings discover a secret passage and a stairwell leading to ...
This subgenre focuses on characters and plotlines after a major world disaster has occurred. You'll often find themes such as community and its role in survival, destruction of ecosystems, human nature, and dystopian governments. 1. Before the Earth was made uninhabitable, a group of survivors evacuated the planet on a spaceship. Generations later,...
This cyberpunk-inspired subgenre takes place in the near future and examines the (often dark) consequences of bio-engineering. 1. Since the Roswell UFO incident, the government has experimented on splicing human and alien DNA with limited success. Finally, after many attempts, a true hybrid is born. This hybrid's intelligence is off the charts and ...
This subgenre of Science Fiction focuses on elements that appeal to children, from early reading ages through 12 years of age. Common themes include adventure, self-made rocket ships, alien friends, and, of course, robots. 1. Your mom sends you off to clean your room but instead, you build a cleanup machine to do the work for you. Unfortunately, it...
A subgenre in which humans (or other lifeforms) move to a distant area or world and create a new settlement. Common themes are possible human extinction, overpopulation of the Earth, an uninhabitable Earth, the discovery of other worlds, acquisition of resources, or threat of human extinction. 1. After the great interplanetary war, a human colony o...
Through a pessimistic and satiric lens, this subgenre mocks social conventions through the tropes of Science Fiction. 1. She's not sure exactly how she made it through cadet training, but a bookworm finds herself on a military starship sent to the far reaches of space. Her anxiety-ridden personality and socially awkward demeanor are in striking con...
In this subgenre, humans and machines are one. Common themes include the exploration of the relationship between man and computers, often in a depressing world, as well as cybernetics, prosthetics, cyborgs, and the internet. 1. An elite spy has decided she's had enough of risking her life and plans to escape into the anonymity of a virtual reality ...
A subgenre where the Earth is dying and landscapes are barren, making it hostile to human life. These types of stories focus on fatality, lost innocence, idealism, entropy, exhaustion of materials, and loss of hope. 1. Millions of years have passed, and the planet has become hostile to human life. Starvation have killed off most of the world's huma...
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Jul 23, 2023 · Find inspiration for your sci-fi writing with these 101 prompts, ranging from alien invasions to parallel universes. Explore the possibilities of science fiction and create your own stories with these ideas.
Struggling to come up with a fresh idea for a science fiction story? Wake up your imagination with these unique sci-fi writing prompts.
