It was your great-grandmother’s wish for there to be one last family reunion before she passed. Everyone must attend. No exceptions. This was fine until assorted alien spacecraft…
Rob Bignell shared these five sci-fi what-if style prompts.
To: Admiral Zazizch;By: Encrypted Proxy 92a-256;Re: Your plan failedThe humans were not intimidated at all. Send reinforcements. Encounter log attached. (first blogged here)
Well, there goes that entire planet. Best set a warning beacon as we evacuate.
When an inventor rips a hole in the fabric of time and space, the last surviving member of The Society of Time Keepers sets out on a steam-powered…
Only you know that the alien invasion has already begun. What do you do now?
Exploring an uncharted alien planet, you discover an ancient civilization and a powerful relic. Betrayed by your ally, who steals the relic, you must survive the planet’s dangers,…
You inherit a quirky little spaceship from your eccentric grandfather and, while fixing it up, you discover a message from an unknown sender. Intrigued, you embark on a…
Investigating strange occurrences in a futuristic city, you uncover a secret organization manipulating reality. Trapped in their reality-warping trap, you must find a way to break free, navigate…
You are an ordinary office worker in a dystopian future. You’ve always been fascinated by the stars and space exploration. One day, you stumble upon a secret government…
A group of astronauts on a routine mission to Mars discover a strange object buried on the planet’s surface. As they begin to study it, they realize that…
Due to advanced magic or poorly understood technology, time rewinds and your characters must live through the events of the last chapter a second time. Maybe they change…
Grand Elder Tashmin is a character I cooked up for HFY-style prompts. Here is a collection of Grand Elder Tashmin prompts we posted on Tumblr.
No one on Earth knew that there had been a massive cloaked ship in orbit for the last sixteen years.
In all that time, the ship’s AI has been calculating the answer to a complex problem. Today, the AI came to a decision. The ship opened a small,…
You are part of the first deep-space exploration expedition. You have settled into orbit around an Earth-like planet. It has a large moon that is made entirely of…
In case you did not know, The Muse has an outpost on Tumblr. Here are five of our more lively prompts from Tumblr. The last prompt has a…
Today you learned that you do not live on Earth. No one has even seen that planet in the last thousand years.