Ideas & inspiration for science fiction writers, including random name generators

The generator will display randomly generated sci-fi plot ideas, useful for short stories, or maybe to inspire a full novel. Simply press the button for more ideas.

In the words of author Mike Resnick, this is “science fiction about science fiction”. More precisely, it is science fiction in which there are multiple references to other scifi works, or which attempts to …

IDEAS AND INSPIRATION FOR SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS We have a collection of tools to help & inspire writers in their creative writing projects. Other random generators Spaceship name generator …

If you’re writing a scifi story about visiting these planets, you might quickly run out of inspiration for how to give them a unique description. There have been many different types of planets shown in scifi …

This takes inspiration from real companies (mostly tech companies as this is intended for futuristic corporations), & fictional futuristic companies. Careful using these though, as they might actually …

Need a spaceship name for your sci-fi story, novel, or game? Here's some suggestions from our random Spaceship Name Generator.

Need a Cyberpunk female character name? Here’s a random generator that will create a random name of a character in a futuristic cyberpunk world. This generator takes names inspired by cyberpunk …

What do aliens in your sci-fi story eat? Generate alien-sounding food

Writing a sci-fi story & need a name for a star system or region of space? This name generator will display both the names of real star systems & randomly generated fictional star system names.