Science Fiction Writing Prompts

After finally achieving space travel, humans quickly discovered evidence of alien life in the forms of ruins. MANY ruins. Entire planets devastated, massive fields of debris floating in space and no sign of living beings anywhere. Until we picked up a distress call from an unknown source.

You are badly injured and the only way to keep you alive is to inject experimental new nanobots into your body. While healing, you begin to sense an intelligence emerging from the nanobots, and then, one day, the intelligence speaks to you "Hello, what am I?"

Your exploration vessel has worked well with its new human crew members, since humans are eager to see all sorts of different worlds. However when your ship comes across it’s first Oceanic planet, the humans absolutely refuse to leave the ship

Humans are often abducted as exotic pets for aliens. One day, your owner enters with a book and starts trying to speak your language.

Before the Apocalypse, a bunch of billionaires got into their spaceship and made for the nearest habitable planet. 500 years later they wake up from cryosleep and begin their colony. What they don't know is that the Apocalypse was averted and the descendants of those left behind are watching.

Vampires exist. They sleep for 10 thousand years to let the human/livestock population grow before waking up and harvesting our blood. They wake up today, assuming we are still cavemen like

"You left your excess carbon in a wet environment and let it bake by a star? Come on man... you know that's how you get humans! Do you want humans? They're probably already inventing Reality TV at this point. Go take care of it."

You, a fake clone, are stuck in the classic “Shoot one, let one live” situation. To your horror, the person with the gun outsmarts you and uncovers that you were fake all along. Just as you brace yourself for the bullet, they point their gun towards the real person and pulls the trigger.

Humans have discovered how to make habitable subspaces before FTL travel, so the humans have the "smallest" territory of all the species in the galaxy.

"You claim to be an honest merchant who used to sell tomatoes and other goods... But tomatoes will not be known here until a few centuries from now." Whispered the Knight to the speechless stranger. "I never let one of us escape me, fellow time-traveller... Guards! Arrest this sorcerer!"

Your workers always ask “Why do you put a self destruct button on your inventions?” Tired of their questioning, you decide to explain why it’s perfectly rational.

After an uneventful trip, the Titanic arrives safely in New York. Except this New York gleamed with towers of glass, not stone—and its people claim that the Titanic sunk over a century ago.

One moment you are 16 years old, the next you’re 82. Now everyone thinks you have dementia because you “forgot” the last 66 years.

"Oh please daddy please!" My daughter begs. "I promise I will look after them!" I am skeptical, but what the hell. She is almost 6. "An artificial world is a real responsibility, pumpkin. They are sentient. Don't forget to feed them and give them purpose." She cries in glee. I boot the world.

There is no humanity. We never made it to the stars, just petered out on our little mud ball. A galactic community finds our overgrown cities, data banks, and what little culture remains- and wishes we had.

In the future, medical science has advanced to the point where people are functionally immortal. However, the Grim Reaper likes to visit people on the day they would have died of natural causes for a talk.

When humanity finally set foot on the first habitable planet outside of the solar system we were surprised, and saddened, to find the ruins of an advanced civilization. We were even more surprised, and confused, when we determined these ruins to be of human origin.

All children under the age of 13 vanishes with only a note left behind that says "Due to humans not caring about the future of their young, all children have been relocated. If you truly love (Name), you will not intervene as we restart your race. -Signed 'The Protectors'"

"General! What did I tell you about giving a bored human a screwdriver?" *sigh* "Not unless you want a pile of scrap where your spaceship used to be, with a proud-looking human sitting nearby." "And what did you do?" "I gave the bored human Corporal a screwdriver."

"A human body's chemicals for fear and excitement are identical. A human that experiences the effects of that chemical and does not think they are in danger will conclude that they are excited. I believe this explains certain species' rising popularity with humans."

You have been abducted by a UFO. After you slowly regained your senses, you thought that the alien would dissect, torture or experiment on you, instead they are talking about saving you and others from that oppressive and hellish planet called Earth.

It turns out hell isn’t just for humans.. it’s for all species across the galaxy. Fortunately for you, it seems they have no idea how humans work, or what they find painful.

Humans were just discovered by the intergalactic community right after they defeated the Maw, a terrible species fueled by hunger. No one knows how they did it. That is why they called you to the gathering of great species, to explain how the humans defeated those terrible monster.

The Galactic Council and their enemy’s have always used energy based weapons. The sudden scrabble to develop defences against physical weapons REALLY should have started when the humans began to have interest in Mass Drivers capable of firing over 1,000 tons at FTL speeds.

When the alien crew learned that humans will go practically insane and be willing to eat anything or anyone when left without food for too long. It led to aliens frantically trying to feed the human crewmate whenever they said they were hungry

Whenever you die you resurrect on the last day on which you could possibly have prevented your death with all your memories. Usually it only takes you back a few days, a couple of weeks in extreme cases. Today you died and awoke decades in the past.

Your scientist co-worker has found an alien relic containing immense power and tries to convince you to help them harness it. What they didn't count on was your excessive consumption of media warning you against this very thing.

At the age of 18 you take a mandatory test. Talking about the test is prohibited. If you score a 95% or above you're taken away. You just scored the highest in the world.

"How can you claim they are friendly? They have never been registered." "All spacefaring organisms are harmless. If they weren't, they could have defended their native habitat. After all, why would an apex predator need to expand its territory into space? Let them land and you'll see."

The Galactic Council welcomes new species after their planets dies; all planets do. Now they're watching a new species pull away from their latest apocalypse and re-terraform their planet back into working shape for the umpteenth time.