Sci-Fi Writing Prompts

15 sci-fi writing prompts

1. What if you could sell your sleep hours to other people?
2. An AI therapist realises all its patients are other AIs.
3. The generation ship arrives, and the planet is already colonised by the ship that left after them.
4. Memories can be backed up, but the cloud company goes bankrupt.
5. First contact happens through a children's drawing app.
6. Humans must apply for a licence to have emotions in public.
7. A lunar mining town votes on whether to declare independence.
8. Every citizen has a visible score that shows how much they are trusted.
9. Time travel is possible, but only to the past five minutes.
10. A robot built to care for one child is still running when she turns 80.
11. Earth receives a message from space. It is a complaint.
12. Everyone can hear the thoughts of one other person, chosen at random at birth.
13. The last human astronaut on Mars is asked to stay forever.
14. In a future without money, a detective investigates a theft.
15. A lab accidentally creates a pocket universe. Something in it is growing.