[GavinB]

Just needs some rendering presets, star field backgrounds, lens flare, GPT-2 title generation, and you've got random SF novel book covers!

[smcameron]

Speaking of random SF book covers: https://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/derange-o-lab/pulp-o-m...

[FraKtus]

This is so fun to play with. Thank you for sharing!

[nineteen999]

Spacescape is good for your procedural starfields:

http://alexcpeterson.com/spacescape/

[smcameron]

Here's something to make procedurally generated gas giants: https://github.com/smcameron/gaseous-giganticus

Here's a skybox generator: http://wwwtyro.github.io/space-3d/

[xwdv]

Why not randomly generate titles as well? And perhaps a synopsis.

[yellowapple]

Randomly generate the ship names by pulling random phrases out of literature and you've got yourself an Ian Banks novel.

[cerberusss]

May he rest in peace. I had such pleasure reading his books, and the ship names were very funny indeed. Someone on HN pointed me to Neil Asher, who also authors the same genre and sometimes similarly names the ships.

[arethuza]

I think the Mistake Not... would like a quiet word.