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Best Science Fiction Writing Prompts

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Write a story about an adventure in space.

Science Fiction – 28 stories

Write a story about a road trip taking place 300 years from now.

Science Fiction – 18 stories

It's official. Life has been discovered on another planet, and it's trying to communicate with Earth.

Science Fiction

Google is a person you have to talk to if you want to use the internet.

Science Fiction

The people in YouTube ads have started talking to you directly.

Science Fiction

Write a short story in which you try to predict the future — and every prediction you make comes true.

Science Fiction

You can buy a pill that lets you decide exactly what you will dream about while you sleep.

Science Fiction

You find a polaroid camera that seems to predict the future: its pictures show what will happen exactly 5 minutes from the moment you take them.

Science Fiction

You spent a whole day inside, not realizing that everyone else in the world had disapeared.

Science Fiction

You took a nap that lasted 8 years.

Science Fiction

You wake up and have totally forgotten everything other than the past 24 hours. So has everyone else.

Science Fiction

You wake up and at some point in the day realize you have become invisible.

Science Fiction

You sit down to family dinner and notice that one of your parents has been replaced by a robot. Nobody seems to notice except for you.

Science Fiction

You head to work on Monday morning, only to realize it's Saturday again and you're stuck in a loop of the weekend.

Science Fiction

You have the ability to freeze time. One day, when you've frozen everything, you spot a person walking around.

Science Fiction

You got on the wrong bus and ended up in a remote town where things seemed a little... odd.

Science Fiction

Wearing dirty jeans and a flannel shirt, a lone traveller shows up at a village on a day they happen to be hosting their annual fall festival. The year is 1800.

Science Fiction

Everyone in the world has the ability to read minds, except for you. However, you're also the only person whose mind can't be read.

Science Fiction

A secret society makes contact and reveals that your whole life has been founded on a lie – what is the lie and how will the answer turn your world upside down?

Science Fiction

A group of scientists on a submarine are alarmed when they spot what looks like a functioning lighthouse at the bottom of the ocean.

Science Fiction

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