| This SF story-generator spreadsheet was written by Jocelyn Paine, using Excelsior. There's an explanation of how it works at http://www.j-paine.org/excelsior/repository/spin/. Thanks to Alice Campbell for sending me an improvement. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| Story | Recalculate | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Mars | Recalculate | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| is invaded by nasty aliens | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| and everyone dies | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| story node nos | story out edge count | | | | | | | | | | | | | story out edge index | story out edge destination node no | story out text | | | | | |
| 0 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | 1 | Mars | | | | | |
| 1 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | 2 | is invaded by nasty aliens | | | | | |
| 2 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 | -1 | and everyone dies | | | | | |
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| node nos | out edges | | | | | | | | | | | | | out edge count | | | | | | | |
| 0 | Earth | 1 | Mars | 1 | Planet 9 of Alpha-Centauri | 1 | | | | | | | | 3 | | | | | | | |
| 1 | is used as the cue ball in a game of galactic bar-billiards | 2 | falls toward the Sun | 2 | falls toward a black hole | 2 | is struck by a comet | 2 | is invaded by nasty aliens | 2 | is taken over by mutant diploid armour plated pterodactyls with ESP and silicon-based DNA | 2 | is taken over by a time-travelling loony who returns to his youth and | 6 | | | | | | | |
| 2 | and everyone dies | -1 | and almost everyone dies | -1 | and is visited by evil | 4 | and is visited by good | 4 | | | | | | 4 | | | | | | | |
| 3 | changes sex, meets himself, and has children who become | 7 | kills himself (I said he was a loony) | -1 | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | |
| 4 | aliens | 5 | robots | 5 | mutant brewers yeast cells | 5 | | | | | | | | 3 | | | | | | | |
| 5 | who | 6 | who | 17 | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | |
| 6 | also die | -1 | save everyone | 9 | rewind time to before the disaster | 11 | copy the lot into a giant Sextium 3000 and edit out the nasty bits | 16 | | | | | | 4 | | | | | | | |
| 7 | yet more of this loony who | 3 | the whole human race | -1 | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | |
| 8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 | | | | | | | |
| 9 | and depart | -1 | and give the secret of | 10 | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | |
| 10 | free fusion power | 13 | free beer | 13 | Life, the Universe, and Everything | 42 | Life, the Universe, and Everything | 13 | eternal life | 13 | | | | 5 | | | | | | | |
| 11 | but then | 0 | | 9 | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | |
| 12 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0 | | | | | | | |
| 13 | so everyone gets very bored and tries to forget this by | 15 | so everyone gets very bored and tries to forget this by | 14 | so all live happily ever after | -1 | | | | | | | | 3 | | | | | | | |
| 14 | drinking | -1 | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | |
| 15 | becoming Gods; creating a new Universe wherein | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | |
| 16 | but the system crashes | -1 | but they mis-type 'aliens' and take out all the lions instead | -1 | but they run out of credits | -1 | but they run out of budget | -1 | but they run out of CPU time | -1 | but they run out of memory | -1 | but the editor is in Prolog and they know only Basic | 6 | | | | | | | |
| 17 | are wiped out by | 18 | wish only to serve everyone | 21 | save it and enslave everyone | -1 | and | 22 | are converted by the village priest (who tells them of God) to | 26 | steal its reserves of | 27 | | 6 | | | | | | | |
| 18 | mumps | 19 | atom-test radiation | 19 | the village idiot | 19 | the beer | 19 | | | | | | 4 | | | | | | | |
| 19 | which then kills off everyone else | -1 | which then turns everyone else into supermen | 20 | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | |
| 20 | | -1 | | 13 | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | |
| 21 | (fried) | -1 | (boiled in white sauce) | -1 | | -1 | | | | | | | | 3 | | | | | | | |
| 22 | are stopped by a logician | 23 | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | |
| 23 | who says 'I am lying' | 24 | who can't remember the Paradox of the Liar and gets killed | -1 | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | |
| 24 | and so he must be telling a falsehood | 25 | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | |
| 25 | so he must be telling the truth | 24 | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | |
| 26 | good ones | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | |
| 27 | water | 28 | iron | 28 | asparagus soup | 28 | beer | 28 | | | | | | 4 | | | | | | | |
| 28 | | -1 | and | 22 | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | | |
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