A gifted writer creates a best-selling novel called The Saddest Story. Anyone unlucky enough to read it commits suicide.
Earth's communications satellites begin picking up an alien television station. The new programming is so spellbinding that people never leave their living rooms. Starvation becomes epidemic.
After the invention of robots called Perfect Mates, people begin to prefer the beautiful machines to flawed humans, and stop reproducing.
Billions of people have been abducted by aliens and forced to compete on a bizarre alien game show (or sports event) where the losers are disintegrated. After seven billion losers, the last twenty humans are abducted. Surviving the game show now means the survival of the human race.
A frustrated man working at a chemical weapons laboratory falls in love with a famous actress. Realizing that she would never consider him a worthy companion, he decides to take out his competition: every other male on earth.
The world's governments switch to cashless economies, conducting business completely with digital "cash" transfers. All physical money, including bartering, is banned. Unfortunately, just a few years down the line, a computer glitch crashes the system, and ten billion people suddenly find themselves penniless. The resulting panic leads to widespread rioting, looting, arson, murder, and war.
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Sci Fi Story Starters
Science FictionA few story inspiration points if your looking to write a Sci-Fi novel/story that might help get the ball rolling. If any are used I'd love to see what stories they inspire, be sure to tell me and put them onto wattpad for me to have a read of :) ...
