{"id":214570,"date":"2025-05-23T09:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/5-weird-civilisations-sci-fi-books-you-need-to-read"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T14:09:15","slug":"5-weird-civilisations-sci-fi-books-you-need-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/5-weird-civilisations-sci-fi-books-you-need-to-read","title":{"rendered":"5 Weird Civilisations Sci-Fi Books You Need to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HC18TnbnLY4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today we\u2019re taking a tour through some of the weirdest civilisations in science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude80 Free Sci-Fi Ebook! Get a FREE copy of my dystopian thriller \u201cA Figure Zero\u201d when you sign up for my newsletter! \ud83d\udcd6 \ud83d\udc49 Claim your free ebook here and get exclusive updates on my upcoming books! \ud83d\udcda <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/LT2y4\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/LT2y4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0:00 \u2014 intro.<br \/> 0:48 \u2014 Eden by Stanis\u0142aw Lem.<br \/> 2:36 \u2014 The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman.<br \/> 4:17 \u2014 The Mote in God\u2019s Eye by Larry Niven &amp; Jerry Pournelle.<br \/> 5:50 \u2014 The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov.<br \/> 7:27 \u2014 Honourable Mentions:<br \/> Embassytown by China Mi\u00e9ville.<br \/> City by Clifford D. Simak.<br \/> Engine Summer by John Crowley.<br \/> 9:44 \u2014 A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge.<\/p>\n<p>#scifi #weird #books.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude80 Check out my sci-fi novels below \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n<p>DELPHINE DESCENDS \ud83d\udcd6 \u2014 (Amazon link) <a href=\"https:\/\/shortlink.uk\/P59l.\">https:\/\/shortlink.uk\/P59l.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/5-weird-civilisations-sci-fi-books-you-need-to-read\">Continue reading \u201c5 Weird Civilisations Sci-Fi Books You Need to Read\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we\u2019re taking a tour through some of the weirdest civilisations in science fiction. \ud83d\ude80 Free Sci-Fi Ebook! Get a FREE copy of my dystopian thriller \u201cA Figure Zero\u201d when you sign up for my newsletter! \ud83d\udcd6 \ud83d\udc49 Claim your free ebook here and get exclusive updates on my upcoming books! \ud83d\udcda https:\/\/shorturl.at\/LT2y4 0:00 \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}