BEST SCIENCE FICTION WRITING PROMPTS
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
153 contest entries /
72 stories
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Write from the POV of someone, or something, that experiences gravity differently.
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27 stories
Set your story beyond our own world.
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50 stories
All clocks suddenly stop. Write about what happens next.
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45 stories
Write a story where a device goes haywire.
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29 stories
Write about a character whose dreams are portals to other worlds.
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54 stories
Write a story about a team tunneling down into the centre of a planet.
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6 stories
Set your story in a world living with the consequences of a climate apocalypse.
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134 stories
Write about an android just trying to blend in with their human companions.
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221 stories
Your character has just realized the app they’ve been developing has become self-aware. How do they react?
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74 stories
Write a space adventure story that features a visit to an alien marketplace.
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123 stories
Write about a character putting something into a time capsule.
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141 stories
Write about a character preparing to go into stasis for decades (or centuries).
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108 stories
Write a post-apocalyptic story that features zombies.
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178 stories
Write a story about someone who travels to the future, and isn’t happy about how they’ve been remembered.
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131 stories
Every year, one person is sent to the moon. This year, though you hid in terror, it is your turn to enter the rocket.
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125 stories
Two people who thought they were the last people left on Earth end up meeting by chance.
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147 stories
Your fingers tensed around the object in your pocket, ready to pull it out at a moment's notice.
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44 stories
