SCIENCE FICTION STORY IDEAS PART 5:

FASTER THAN LIGHT

SCIENCE FICTION STORY IDEAS

SPACE EXPLORATION FASTER THAN LIGHT
WHEN A MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE JUST WONT DO FTL COMMUNICATION

Earthlings on different planets have no way to send FTL

messages to communicate with each other. An explorer
discovers a planet populated by beings that can
traverse the universe in the blink of an eye: angels. If
only they could be forced to work as messengers
In the future, telepaths provide the only way to send
faster than light messages across the vastness of space.
Anyone with the gift is forced to work for the
Government Office of Interplanetary Communication,
but one young girl rebels
The population of earth spreads out to a wide variety of
different planets. Unfortunately, they have no way of
communicating with each other at faster than the speed
of light, and it takes years to send messages between
planets. Until one day, when a research company
develops a time machine. To send a message to another
planet instantly, they just send it back in time before it
was ever written.
An alien scientist builds a device that can transmit
signals faster than the speed of light. To test the
prototype, he plugs it into his satellite dish and

rebroadcasts the signal into deep space. Moments later,

earth gets its first glimpse of alien television.
The population of earth spreads out to a wide variety of
different planets. A scientist invents a new device that
sends messages faster than the speed of light. The
scientist discovers that he can send messages to
colonists on other planets, or to someone else God.
An amateur scientist, working in his garage on a FTL
communication device, accidentally contacts an alien
world. The aliens are friendly and offer him the secrets
of their technology, but first he would have to give them
directions to earth. His wife, an avid science fiction fan,
is suspicious and wonders what motivation the aliens
would have to simply give technology away. The
question of wither or not the aliens should be given a
star map to earth leads to debate, to fights, and
eventually to violence.
Scientists discover a form of energy that can travel
faster than light, making FTL communication possible for
the first time. Unfortunately, the energy is extremely
dangerous, and deadly to humans.
A corporation on earth invents faster than light
communication, and sets up the only receiving station
for messages. A young reporter discovers that the
corporation is censoring the news from the space
colonies.
The population of earth spreads out to a wide variety of
different planets, with no way of communicating with
each other at faster than the speed of light. The

government decides to make use of a group of Holy Men

who can use astral projection to travel to other worlds
instantly. One of the Holy Men visits another planet to
deliver a message, but he falls in love with a beautiful
colonist. How can he build a relationship with someone
when hes not even on the same planet?
A doctor in a distant hospital discovers a way to send
messages to distant planets. Patients with terminal
illnesses are given messages to memorize, in the hopes
that they will be able to visit distant worlds on their way
to the afterlife.
While experimenting with a new FTL radio, a scientist
begins receiving messages from alien soldiers fighting in
what sounds an awful lot like earths Civil War
After working for days without sleep, a scientist finally
completes his new FTL radio. He collapses in the corner
of his lab, exhausted. While he slumbers, the first person
to communicate with an alien world is his mischievous,
eight-year-old son.
A scientist working at a radio telescope receives a
strange message. It is a clear signal, but an equipment
malfunction prevents him from determining which
direction the signal originated from. The coded
message, when translated, turns out to be schematics
for a faster-than-light communications device. The
scientist and his coworkers construct the device and
then, not knowing which direction the original message
came from, contemplate sending a signal into every part
of the sky. However, one coworker has an interesting

objection: they are virtually guaranteed to reach

multiple planets with their message. What are the odds
that at least one of them will be hostile? Is it worth
taking the chance, or is it better to remain silent and
unnoticed?
IN SPACE, NO ONE CAN GIVE YOU A SPEEDING TICKET HYPERSPACE /
WARP DRIVE

A scientist discovers hyperspace, a new kind of space

where ordinary laws of physics are changed. In
hyperspace, spaceships can travel faster than light. But
the astronauts start to see strange beings outside their
windows, and what looks suspiciously like souls in
torment. Is hyperspace hell?
Variation Astronauts experimenting with newlydiscovered hyperspace technology find that they can
reach not just other planets, but also the afterlife. They
can visit their dead friends and relatives. What happens
when the astronauts try to bring someone back?
Astronauts discover that traveling through hyperspace
has strange effects on the human body. Namely, it is the
universes most powerful aphrodisiac.
Due to an oddity of physics, every trip through
hyperspace causes the astronauts to lose IQ points.
In hyperspace, the ships can travel faster than the
speed of light. However, traveling outside of normal
spacetime has its risks. People age and grow younger,
transform into strange creatures, or vanish, to reappear
anywhere in the universe.

 Colonists traveling through hyperspace end up in a

parallel universe, where they face alternate versions of
themselves.
The janitor at a scientific research company steals a
prototype hyperdrive and installs it in his pickup truck.
A multi-planet corporation sponsors a faster-than-light
race across the stars. After one mans father dies in the
race, he vows to come back next year and destroy the
race forever with a black hole.
The government tests a spacecraft equipped with a
prototype warp drive, a device capable of bending time
and space. Unfortunately, using the device creates
space/time anomalies on the earth below: areas where
time travels faster or slower than normal, areas where
time travels in reverse, temporary portals to the other
side of the universe, and even greater dangers.
TAKING A SHORTCUT WORMHOLES

Astronauts discover wormholes in space. The wormholes

are powered by ancient alien machinery, and they allow
earthlings to travel FTL for the first time. The wormholes
are used by astronauts, space tourists, colonists to other
worlds, millions of people. And then the aliens from the
Space Travel Agency come to collect the bill.
Unable to develop their own FTL technology, earthlings
must pay to use wormholes. The wormholes are owned
by a lizard-like alien species that use earths money and
resources to fund aggressive wars.

 Human astronauts discover wormholes in space; use

them to travel to distant planets. Unfortunately, the
wormholes are literal worm holes. They are created by
immense worms that eat holes in the space-time
continuum.
A man reveals to his friends that he has a wormhole in
his bedroom closet, but hes afraid to see where it goes.
An alien planet, after running out of space for landfills,
decides to use dispose of its garbage in a wormhole.
Unfortunately, the other end of the wormhole is on
earth.
Spelunkers discover a wormhole in a cave under Gary,
Indiana. In order for the government to use it for space
travel, they must destroy the city.
The government keeps an ancient sect of monks
isolated from the modern world. Any time they need a
wormhole to send a ship into space, they come to the
monks and ask them to pray, and their god answers.
A young girl is born with the ability to open up holes in
the space-time continuum. When a retired NASA
astronaut discovers the girls hidden talent, he vows to
kidnap the girl and use her abilities to get back into
space once more.
In an attempt to travel to distant worlds, government
scientists open up a wormhole. Unfortunately, before
they can send a space probe through, something comes
in from the other side: an alien immigrant. Soon, the
planet is overrun with space aliens, some looking for

work, some looking for a handout, and others just

looking for a good time.