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Science fiction is usually mixed with multiple other genres in novels, and I’m not complaining since it adds depth to the plot too. Though these interesting sci-fi story writing prompts is definitely one to inspire and add to in your story.
Sci-fi usually includes : “imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life”(Wikipedia). XD
Writing prompts are meant to help inspire your own writing and for you to go on and elaborate on further more than the prompts given and into a story of your own. The details are for you to wove in and the ending is for you to decide.
So let’s take a look at these 35 interesting sci-fi story writing prompts in hopes to give you some inspiration!
Let’s Start :
1. The most recent report from the satellites and both the rockets in space went like this : “There’s another planet, and it looks just like Earth.”
2. Ever since cyclops were banned, they were thrown into a massive warehouse, left to rust. And only one stayed conscious throughout these decades, the only cyclops to have human blood.
3. You’re a scientist, and you might’ve just came up with a very deadly weapon that could wipe out or save an entire country.
4. You’ve always been a curious kid, so when you’ve stumbled upon an abandoned house, you go in to find giant tubes with green liquid inside and figures inside that are clearly not human.
5. The Navy has just lost its most famous ship, and the last location was in the Bermuda Triangle
6. Prehistoric animals remains were being found in the last place on Earth you would ever expect. A park.
7. The rocket Solar 123 haven’t reported back in three years, and they just called saying, “It’s been a week since we reported, but everything is going just fine.”
8. You’ve been searching for the one last prehistoric animal recorded in history, and it looks just a little different from how you imagined it.
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9. There has been many alien spotting in your area, and your security camera shows green bald figures just lurking around at your doorstep this second.
10. You sometimes go to psychics for fun, but the future she just prophesied isn’t funny. Not one bit.
11. “You’re in luck, my friend.” He chuckled. “I just so happened to have a time travel clock, and I, myself, is also a time traveler.”
12. The renowned ship in the 1800s have just been found on a deserted island, and someone is still alive. And they look young.
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13. Whoever went in the tunnel at Mount Tsohog were never found again. But today, you go in to break the myth, only to find that it’s far off from what the others have been saying.
14. You flipped through your daily newspaper and slowly work your way through the word search on the bench, as you did for the past century.
15. You’re a time traveler, and you went to the future to see World War Three happen right in front of your eyes.
16. “Thanks for your contribution to the experiment.” He smiled and beckoned at the guard. “Kill him.”
17. You’re the last imperfect human on the world without designed traits altering your DNA. And you haven’t been discovered for decades.
18. “No, you don’t get it!” She exclaimed. “I’m not supposed to be alive, I died twenty years ago and this isn’t supposed to be my body!”
19. “The experiment has failed, You Need to get it now.” He frantically pushed me out of my cell. “They’re coming for you.”
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20. You’ve been genetically designed by the mafia to have perfect aim, the eyes of an eagle, and to be the best of the best assassins the world had ever seen.
21. Ever since your baby learned to talk, she only repeated one line, “Help me.”
22. He’s a pilot who went missing two decades ago, he just landed at the airport saying, “You’ll never believe what I saw on the other side.”
23. The doctor handed you, a dying cancer patient, a paper while he said, “Would you want to participate in this experiment? It won’t hurt.”
24. AI have developed the skill to have their own emotional feelings, and the first ever AI murder has just happened.
25. People can enter worlds through books, and you’ve just entered the book that was locked inside a museum for centuries.
26. “This potion was developed for you, but you need to run with this now. Don’t ever let them find you and this bottle.”
27. “I’m sorry, the experiment failed.” She looked at me apologetically. “You aren’t going to live for long.”
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28. She was born without eyes, but that didn’t stop her from becoming the most wanted scientist on the government’s black list.
29. You woke up and checked your agenda, to stop the war back in 1444 and to bring back the recipe of your late mom’s banana bread.
30. You opened the lock to store an artifact in the museum storage room, but you hear a voice coming from none other than the Egyptian coffin.
31. The lights went out as soon as I blew the candles on my eighteenth birthday, and there was only a pair of red eyes visible in the pitch black room.
32. “Why did you have to create me into this world?” I held the struggling man dressed in a lab suit. “You should’ve know this was going to happen when you brought me back from the dead.”
33. “I’ve been living in another world for the past century, and I haven’t aged at all!” He cried out to me. “Trust me, I’ll take you there.”
34. “If you kill me, you’ll never find the cure to the disease!” “I am the disease, I trust my own body to figure it out.”
35. Airplanes flew around the sky, hovering over the town that was set on fire for the war between the two species.
Conclusion :
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