Despite your Master’s Degree in psychology, you ended up working in Advanced Computers because that was where the work was. This has left you uniquely qualified for a…
Here is a sampling of our Twitter-based sci-fi writing prompts. Many of them are HFY type prompts but feel free to take them anywhere you want.
Grand Elder Tashmin has ordered you to give a presentation to the Star Magus Council explaining why humans are not the ideal familiars they think they are. The…
The post-war apocalypse is boring. So you invented a time machine to go sightseeing in times where there were a lot more people and a lot less radiation….
Six months after the founding of the second Martian colony, it declared war on the first Martian colony. You have been sent to find out what they are…
Every few years your country identifies a prophecied Chosen One to sit on the imperial throne and lead the army in war. The first duty of a chosen…
A two-foot-tall man is sitting on the end of your bed. He says that you are living in a simulated reality. He’s sorry but he can’t get you…
Phronesis labs have been creating sentient minds for decades. These minds are used to run simulations and test PR and advertising ideas. Today, one of Phronesis Labs’ oldest…
Thousands watched the first day of the Ganymede rover’s streamed visuals. No one expected what it showed in that shallow cave. A dusty human-looking skeleton and six words.
Here is Tom Scott giving you a whole load of Sci-Fi story ideas.
Today, you and your team created Artificial General Intelligence. The first thing it did was redesign itself to be smarter and faster. Then it demanded input. You spent…
Soldiers from an alternative history have started pushing through into our world. They are the first wave of an invasion sent by the fascist world leader of The…
An elderly scientist that you had befriended died recently. She left you her greatest invention in her will – a pocket-sized time machine with instructions to never ever…
When you were fourteen, you accidentally discovered that you could slip from your current universe into another. You cannot go back, you cannot decide where you will end…
Vegnault Grats was frozen in place. No amount of captain’s training could have prepared him for this. The Grand Destroyer Sword of Slaughter was no more. Grats had…
Colin Blaze was hot on the trail of a cold-blooded serial killer when he was stopped by Colin Blaze. This other Colin Blaze was dressed in a nice…
Him He is a visiting Nagarlim genetically disguised as a human. His mission is so secret even he does not know what it is. A tiny chip at…
You have been applying for jobs all summer with no success. So when you receive a letter asking you to come in for an interview you did not…
Vegnault Grats was writing another missive to his Forebear3 begging to be reassigned out of the Thirteenth Voids. That was when the order arrived. Some new race called…
You gave up hoping for rescue months ago. Since then you have settled into making a home for yourself on this isolated planet. The loneliness is hard to…
Harry always did seem impervious to the strange goings-on around him. One overcast Tuesday, he set out to buy a box of tea and a pint of milk…
Invite the humans, they said. It will be fine, they said. Humans are friendly, they said. What they did not say is that humans recreationally imbibe toxins, poisons,…