Science fiction stories mostly showcase futuristic ideas, scientific concepts, space explorations & adventures, extraterritorial existence, time travel, cosmic possibilities, etc.
But Sci-fi story writing is a way broader genre where all the possibilities with science and space are explored.
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Below is the list of some great science fiction story ideas, and writing prompts that will help you brainstorm your great sci-fi story.
60 Science Fiction Story Ideas (Writing Prompts) –
#1
-A science girl accidentally solved one of the greatest mysteries of the universe.
#2
-Seven men dressed in an unknown uniform appear at a character’s door at midnight and order him to come with them. They are from the future.
#3
-An intelligent life form from a planet of a very far away galaxy has just found out about the presence of life on earth.
#4
-One regular day, the spaceship lands in your character’s garden, and her parents leave with it.
#5
-A character finds out that his rescued pet dog is actually an extraterrestrial being disguised as a dog. The character misuses him in exchange for shelter and security.
#6
-In the far future, the government has banned multiverse travel for common people but yet some people are using it secretly.
#7
-Scientists forced human DNA to evolve further and further. This resulted in the creation of flying superhumans.
#8
-People are now using a technology called dream online which lets people meet and communicate with other people in dreams.
#9
-Teleportation is now the new way of travel.
#10
-A war on mars is going on to capture as much land as possible by the world countries.
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#11
-A young girl met with an accident and wakes up after 207 years in the future. She was part of a project which is the reason she is still alive and young.
#12
-In the future people started living in the water cities made inside the oceans.
#13
-Scientists were trying to create the big bang in a lab on a small scale but that resulted in opening a portal to different worlds.
#14
-With the new technology humans are now able to talk with their pets and other animals.
#15
-People are abandoning the real world and now choosing to live in a computer-simulated world filled with everything they ever wished for.
#16
-The extraterrestrials now rule the planet and roam around cities to destroy any rebellion.
#17
-The space city is now the home of the rich where a character lives in his wealthy family but falls in love with a poor girl living on the surface.
#18
-A weird sound is coming from the space which is increasing day by day.
#19
-3 time travelers from different timelines coincidentally met at a place and invited each other to visit their homes in different timelines.
#20
-A character’s new friend is a time traveler and she doesn’t know.
#21
-A character genius friend was secretly testing a time-traveling machine in his garage lab when he suddenly disappeared and the machine broke down.
#22
-A character was sleeping when all of a sudden he woke up and found a woman sleeping next to her, and saw a picture of him with the lady kissing and the room was also different from his. The character was somehow in a parallel universe where he is married.
#23
-A group of snowboarders discovers a hidden door in the snowy mountain, the door led to an abandoned laboratory containing bodies of clones
#24
-A character’s genius friend and roommate from his college is actually an extraterrestrial being disguised as a student and is part of a research team from his planet secretly studying the earth, its living beings, and the technology found here.
#25
-A character belongs to a planet where women have gone extinct and only men live.
#26
-A character lives on a planet where everything is totally flat, like foods have no taste, flowers have no smell, and every visible thing is white in color. They call it the boring planet.
#27
-In an accident, a character hits a laboratory vehicle containing plutonium and a gallon of some secret chemical. The character is alive but in a multidimensional state.
#28
-In the future, a character travels back in time using his father’s time machine to meet his dead grandfather who had started the time machine project but had left after failing every time.
#29
-After surviving an explosion in his factory, a character started seeing things from the future.
#30
-With the new technology anyone suffering from any disease is cured instantly but it comes with a heavy price.
#31
-The world is now connected with underground tunnels running super fast vehicles carrying people who work every day thousand miles away from their homes.
#32
-In the Roman era, a soldier somehow finds an advanced weapon, a gun of the 21st century.
#33
-In the far future, the earth is inhabited by highly advanced AI robots and no human being lives on the planet.
#34
-The weather is now controlled by humans through advanced weather technology which has now corrupted, leading the earth towards an ice age.
#35
-Humans have now established connections with civilizations living in far away galaxies.
#36
-The government is providing vaccination against aging helping people to live forever but soon learns the repercussions of playing god.
#38
-An old scientist had created a time traveling watch and kept it secret while using it for many years but revealed it to his grandson on his deathbed.
#39
-A genius schoolboy creates a wormhole in his basement and no one knows where he went through it except one of his school friends.
#40
–A character finds out that his parents and his sister are robots and even his school teachers, his friends and everyone in his town is a robot and so he tries to find the reason without letting anyone know that he knows their truth.
#41
-A character who started receiving calls from himself. The other person is himself but from a other dimension.
#42
-A character is very good with computers and creates a real-world simulation where people could upload their consciousness and live forever as one of the characters in the simulation while leaving their bodies in a deep freeze.
#43
-A character falls in love with a woman working at a shop but he finds out that she’s just a robot designed to work at shops.
#44
-An innocent man serving a lifetime prison sentence in the future time escapes and comes into the past using time travel to prove his innocence.
#45
-A family who is actually highly intelligent robots sent from the future to investigate a crime.
#46
-A NASA scientist finds out what existed before the big bang. He got amazed.
#47
-In the future time travel becomes possible and everyone is allowed to go back in time but they can’t return.
#48
-An astronaut returned to earth and later discovers that it was not the earth that he had left but a multiverse.
#49
-In the year 3090, a group of brave astronauts is traveling back in time before the big bang. They are amazed at what they saw.
#50
-A criminal clones himself and calls the police to arrest his clone. The clone is an innocent man who gets a lifetime prison sentence for the crimes of his creator. A cop knows all this but he had to catch him to prove it.
#51
-In the far future, a spaceship entering the milky way galaxy gets a message on its screen saying, beware of ultra-advanced humans.
#52
-Someone from the future is trying to contact the present humans through some advanced technology. He holds a crucial message for humankind.
#53
-Parents are cloning themselves to take care of their babies when they are at work. A clone couple escapes with the baby.
#54
-In the year 2067, a young man living and working on mars as a spaceship engineer for a company finds his life very boring on the planet and is trying to return to earth. The company won’t let him leave.
#55
In a futuristic world, rich are buying their life partners and kids from a scientific advanced company selling specially engineered million dollar humans artificially born in their labs. A character finds out that she and her kid were bought by her billionaire husband.
#56
-An explorer spaceship finds an alien world inhabited by giant human-like creatures.
#57
-A schoolboy discovers that all the teachers of his school are robots.
#58
–Some sentient AI is now ruling the world with its huge robot army.
#59
–In future tourism, people travel back to the world of the dinosaurs to see them alive. Traveling back to any human civilization timeline is restricted.
#60
-In the future, a huge meteor is coming towards the earth and every government is evacuating important personalities in their huge rockets leaving the planet and common people behind. But someone has a plan B.
