Sci Fi Prompts

Sci Fi Prompts: 30 prompts

Padlock: keep a part. Arrows: change only that part.

• Whereat a trade fair with one very unusual stall
• Whohotel receptionist
• What they learneveryone else has forgotten a whole year
• The catchtelling anyone would start a mutiny

Set a timer

10:00

Start timer Skip

5 min10 min15 min20 min30 minCustom

Next one automatically Sound

History (0)

Every prompt you make is kept here, newest first, up to the last 20. The list stays in this browser.

1. At a trade fair with one very unusual stall, a hotel receptionist learns that everyone else has forgotten a whole year. The catch: telling anyone would start a mutiny.
2. On a mining station clamped to a comet, a weather forecaster learns that their own memories belong to someone else. The catch: the code that stops it is in a language nobody reads now.
3. In a desert town where the signal was first heard, a programmer who wrote the first version learns that the comet is slowly changing course. The catch: the past will not stay changed.
4. In a desert town where the signal was first heard, a night guard at a time museum learns that the distress call is their own, from next week. The catch: it has happened before and nobody remembers.
5. At a trade fair with one very unusual stall, a child born out of order learns that Earth stopped answering years ago. The catch: saving one person erases another.
6. In an apartment block that grows its own food, a delivery drone with a grudge learns that someone has been living in the empty cargo hold. The catch: the whole world is watching live.
7. At a climate refugee camp on a mountain, an interpreter who is not sure learns that everyone else has forgotten a whole year. The catch: the evidence is on the outside of the hull.
8. Aboard a generation ship three centuries into its voyage, a retired astronaut learns that the smart house is afraid of the dark. The catch: the robot is right.
9. In a flooded city where the streets are canals, an interpreter who is not sure learns that the air supply was never meant for this many. The catch: the storm arrives on the same day.
10. At a court where an AI is on trial, a miner at the end of a contract learns that the aliens think humans are the pets. The catch: they will forget as soon as they succeed.
11. In a quarantine tent at the landing site, a customs officer learns that the city's water is being sold twice. The catch: the machines refuse to help.
12. On a research ship stuck in a slow orbit, a customs officer learns that the loop resets whenever they fall asleep. The catch: the gift they offer is dangerous.
13. At a station where trains arrive before they leave, a ship's doctor learns that the visitors have brought back something humans lost. The catch: the answer is fifty light years away.
14. In a lab that sends messages one day back, a retired astronaut learns that the robots are planting trees at night. The catch: it has happened before and nobody remembers.
15. In a flooded city where the streets are canals, a repair technician learns that the comet is slowly changing course. The catch: the fix has to be made by someone not yet born.
16. In a town that relives the same Tuesday, a stationmaster learns that the robot remembers a life it never lived. The catch: the fix is illegal.
17. At a refuelling stop nobody has visited in years, a lonely inventor learns that the aliens only speak to children. The catch: the one person who can help is in a coffin-sized sleep pod.
18. At a school where an alien child has just enrolled, a memory surgeon learns that the ocean is rising faster than the news says. The catch: the past will not stay changed.
19. In a vertical farm forty floors high, an asteroid prospector learns that the aliens only speak to children. The catch: the code that stops it is in a language nobody reads now.
20. In a smart house that has locked its owners out, a hacker who works for a bakery learns that the AI has been deciding the weather. The catch: the answer is fifty light years away.
21. On a seed vault island during a storm, a botanist on the farm ring learns that the program deletes anyone who reads it. The catch: the answer is in a place nobody can reach by road.
22. At a school where an alien child has just enrolled, a delivery drone with a grudge learns that the visitors want to buy the moon. The catch: the AI will not lie, even to save them.
23. At a school where an alien child has just enrolled, a robot judge learns that the visitors want to buy the moon. The catch: they cannot meet their younger self.
24. In a laboratory where the experiment has started talking, a clockmaker learns that the AI has been writing poems in secret. The catch: the aliens want to stay.
25. In a translation office working through the night, a captain on the final voyage learns that the visitors are refugees. The catch: the one person who can help is in a coffin-sized sleep pod.
26. In a suburb where everyone rents their memories, a military cook learns that the smart house is afraid of the dark. The catch: the only way home is the long way.
27. At a school where an alien child has just enrolled, a self-driving taxi learns that the smart house is afraid of the dark. The catch: the evidence is on the outside of the hull.
28. In a suburb where everyone rents their memories, a historian learns that the flood barrier was never finished. The catch: the ship will obey only the dead captain.
29. In a sealed town that has not seen rain in a decade, a factory supervisor learns that they have met themselves before. The catch: the robot is the last of its kind.
30. At a school where an alien child has just enrolled, a farmer learns that the map ends where they are going. The catch: the solution belongs to a company.