SCIENCE FICTION STORY IDEAS PART 2:

APOCALYPSES OR WORLDWIDE DISASTERS

SCIENCE FICTION STORY IDEAS

APOCALYPSES OR WORLDWIDE DISASTERS
AGRICULTURAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS

After years of being genetically altered by scientists,

corn, beans, apples, and other crops evolve sentience
humans wonder what are we supposed to eat now?
The world is in dire straits after the latest batch of
genetically engineered potatoes is discovered to be
highly explosive.
A botanists experiments with Venus flytraps leads to
disaster when the plants begin spreading like weeds,
and growing large enough to eat a human being.
After dozens of volcanoes erupt in a single day, the sky
is blotted out by volcanic ash. With no sunlight, the
earth begins to freeze.
Scientists declare that they have solved the problem of
hunger when they invent a highly nutritious, weed-like
plant that can grow anywhere with no assistance from
humans. The plant mutates, and grows faster and faster,
covering the surface of the earth. Soon it reaches
heights of fifty feet in a single night. Everyone has
ample food, but getting around becomes impossible.
Technology begins to deteriorate.

 A land developer buys millions of acres of useless land:

Antarctica. To make the land valuable, he constructs a
gigantic, parabolic mirror to focus the suns rays to melt
the ice. As Antarctica is freed from its frozen wastes, the
rest of the world experiences floods of epic proportions.
The rising seas threaten to turn Florida into the next
Atlantis.
POPULATION DISASTERS

A gifted writer creates a best-selling novel called The

Saddest Story. Anyone unlucky enough to read it
commits suicide.
Earths 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 worlds 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.
DISEASE

A mutation in bacteria leads to a new sexually

transmitted disease. As the disease progresses, the
victim becomes more attractive, charming and amorous,
until they finally die a horrendously painful death.
Astronauts returning to earth bring back a strange alien
disease. The only symptom is ever-increasing euphoria,
eventually leaving the victim so happy and content that
they no longer feel any need to go to work, bathe, eat
Scientists engineer a virus that dramatically increases
human intelligence. Unfortunately, there is a side effect:
obsessive paranoia. As people lose trust in each other,
society begins to crumble.
A man named Gary comes down with a bad cold. In his
job at a nuclear power plant, he is exposed to a strong
dose of radiation which mutates the virus. Instead of
injecting its own DNA into human cells, the cold virus
injects copies of Garys DNA. Anyone who catches

Garys cold is slowly transformed into his clone. The

planet soon has an epidemic of Garyitis.
POST-APOCALYPTIC SOCIETIES

After a nuclear war, a small band of survivors lives

together in a dilapidated shopping mall. After a few
years, the survivors see something they thought no
longer existed: a woman. The woman soon has thirty
men fighting for her affections. She soon learns how
easily manipulated lonely men can be.
After an alien invasion destroys the Earth, a handful of
survivors find that a former NASA scientist is still alive.
The man from NASA operated the most powerful
telescope in the world and must have seen the aliens
coming, but he chose not to warn anyone. When asked,
he refuses to say why he didnt give a warning, telling
them they just wouldnt understand. The survivors
decide to torture him until he gives up his secret.
After all of humanity is killed in a nuclear war, only a
handful of androids remain. They decide to recreate the
human race via cloning. Unfortunately, they only have
two usable samples of human DNA, one male, one
female.
After a near-apocalypse, all historical records are lost.
After the survivors rebuild, they make what they think is
humanitys first trip to the moon. They are shocked to
discover a strange flag on the moons surface. The
astronauts take the flag back to earth, and scientists try
to interpret the meaning of its symbols. Maybe the fifty

stars represent the fifty different alien races in some

sort of Interplanetary Alliance?
After the destruction of nearly all life on Earth, the
survivors decide to use all of their medical resources to
make one of them immortal. This immortal survivors job
will be to serve as a constant voice of warning,
reminding humanity to never start another global war.
After a near-apocalyptic war, humanity is beginning to
rebuild and reproduce. A team of archeologists is on the
hunt for lost historical records, desperate to discover
what caused humanitys near-destruction. All that
remains of the records is a single, handwritten journal,
the journal of the last President. The information
contained in the journal could allow humanity to learn
from its mistakes and, thus, not repeat them. Or, if it fell
into the wrong hands
Aliens attack the earth with a bizarre weapon: the
chronobomb. Entire cities are instantly transported into
the past. A chronobomb strikes a college dormitory,
transporting back to the Jurrasic. The coeds struggle to
survive against dinosaurs, disease, and a murderous
fraternity.
After the earths population is decimated by asteroids,
the survivors reorganize into an anarchist society. They
learn to grown their own crops, have a new Industrial
Revolution, and eventually reinvent technology. After
years of peace and prosperity, an archeologist discovers
a dangerous artifact from the earths past: a book, The
Beginners Guide to Politics.

 After the earths population is decimated in a nuclear

war, the survivors discuss how to begin again. The
women decide that, as men were responsible for the
war, they must never allow men to control anything ever
again. The surviving men soon find themselves reduced
to the level of family pets.
A global disaster destroys earths technology, reducing
America to a nomadic, subsistence-level society. A man
explores the ruins of a city, and stumbles upon whats
left of a highschool archery range. He gathers up the
weapons, making his tribe the most powerful people in
the world. They wage war against the other tribes,
nearly unstoppable. A rival tribe finds the ruins of a
museum, where they find a full-scale replica of a
medieval catapult, now the most powerful weapon in the
world. The conflict rages on, as the tribes engage in an
archeological arms race.
An engineer who designs weapons for the government
becomes terminally ill, and volunteers to have himself
frozen until a cure can be found. He is revived thirty
years later and healed. After a global war, the
population of the world has gone from billions to a few
hundred thousand. The engineer discovers that a team
of archeologists is on their way to Washington, D.C. to
search for lost historical records. He must stop the
archeologists, lest they discover that he invented the
weapons that destroyed the world.