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Isolation Prompts (2/?)

Science Fiction Prompts to get you going during this isolation. Remember the rules from the other isolation prompts part.

Write about a character who wakes up in a space pod alone...next to a ship so massive it's actually carrying a planet beneath it. Your character has no memory from before they wake.

Write a story about a character who lives in a world where every single person's DNA is carefully genetically designed for something to help the community. Your main character despises what they were created for. This has never happened before.

Write about how your character lives on a planet other than Earth. In fact, they don't even know Earth exists. Well, they didn't until some sort of advanced, technical probe crash-landed in their settlement, exposing the fact that they're not alone. Now they have to decide what's best for their settlement.

Write a book about how the world used to be plagued with war and famine and inhumanity. But after years and years of developing a technical system that is the center of and controls everything, it's almost completely peaceful. Your character is the engineer keeping the system running and when they uncover how it works, they contemplate abandoning everything they know.

Write about the newest advancement in virtual reality that adds a physical sense. Now your characters can even hook up with people through your phone, all while staying at home. But when a glitch alters the mechanisms, what was once pleasure becomes pain and the user gets trapped in a VR state.

Write a story about how others have been keeping your character alive for over 300 years because of a secret they know. When someone new finally learns the truth, reality becomes...confusing. Now, with only a short adulthood left to live, your character must ensure nobody else learns of this secret. But...well, news spreads fast.

Write about how they didn't mean to, but in an attempt to build a time traveling machine, your character actually discovered alternate universes – and then accidentally trapped themselves there. Oh, and this alternate universe hasn't discovered electricity yet.

Write a story about a character who lives in an ancient society. When a shiny, unnatural looking contraption touches down and creatures emerge, everything they once knew changes.

Write about how the only reason your character is alive is because of a test device implanted around their heart. It wasn't supposed to work and now, they're not only healed, but they're also changing. Just what exactly was that device made out of?

Write about a character who wakes up in a dark, hot room dressed in hardly anything. Their memory is foggy but clearing up, and they have some sort of technical device securing their hands together. They stumble over to a tiny window that gives them a clear view of a world far below them.

Write about your character's sister who is discovered dead and the cause of death ruled an overdose. Your character knows better. She was the only person in the family who never had an issue with drugs. In fact, she was developing a cure for cancer in the most advanced research center in the world. Your character finds that...suspicious.

Write a story about how computers are outlawed. Having access to technology is punishable by life in prison. Your character runs an underground cyber center that gets crashed by local law enforcement. But during interrogation, they get hired instead of prosecuted...because something unworldly has touched down.

Write about a character who accidentally created a virtual reality software that taps into the user's psyche and creates their ultimate dream reality. They were on track to become a billionaire until some users became addicted and unable to free themselves from its hold.