Growing up I was always a book worm 🐛 📚

For me, trips to the local library were a weekly (if not twice weekly) adventure that I always looked forward to… I would disappear into the stacks and read the first 10 pages of everything that was interesting to me, and come back out with a huge pile in my arms… smiling and showing my Mom that I struck gold 🙌🏼

The smell of paper and the feel of the well worn pages… the respectful and almost spiritual stillness that hung in the air… weighing you down with the knowledge that, in this place, we are all in our own world… and each of us gets to choose which world to enter… that heavy silence said, “respect it, don’t break the spell… take what you want, and leave in peace…”

I always loved the invisible, yet real connection between me and the person who dog-eared a page that they loved as a silent hint that something vital was about to be learned, or that a turn of phrase was going to hit you right in the chest as real as the thump of a fist…

My mother is a voracious reader and consumes a prodigious amount of material weekly… we were always peas in a pod 🫛 hanging out and reading our books together every day…

I grew up enjoying reading Sci-Fi and Fantasy books… I remember I was 13 when the first book of GOT came out, and I read the entire book in a couple of days, ignoring the teacher in school and getting lost in that world.

There is something absolutely fantastic about being transported into the imagination of another human being. To a place where you can see, smell, hear, touch, and taste the experiences of well-developed characters and ride alongside them while they suffer and triumph through the hero’s journey.

Those authors gave me courage to face bullies, to leave my home town, to travel the world solo (80 countries and counting), to open my own company, to learn to wrestle and how to fight and shoot, learn to fly a plane… along with so many other things…

I gained so many lessons from those characters… thank God for the written word, and for the brilliant and tenacious authors who slave over their craft, carefully twisting and turning phrases until they resonate and penetrate the heart and soul 🙏🏼

I read all the big Sci-fi and Fantasy book years ago… and for years was trying to find new authors to read… I don’t like to support Amazon, being a minimalist who buys locally produced and made goods… but their Kindle Unlimited platform has attracted a huge amount of talented new authors, giving them a place to access the world… For me, it’s been one of the best programs I’ve ever paid for at $12 monthly… being able to carry around a Kindle with over 1000 books on it is a luxury that I am so grateful for…

For those of you who love #sci-fi and #fantasy books, and are looking for new authors that might not be on the big lists of top all-time popular series in the 2 genres… below is a curated list of authors you can try out who produced books I enjoyed and who you can access through the Kindle Unlimited membership.

It is my hope that this list helps some of you who love Sci-Fi and Fantasy to discover new worlds, ride alongside new hero’s and heroines,be inspired to be brave… to have courage… to face your fears… to do what is right, despite the consequences… and to live your life as the hero of your own story 🫡✊🏼

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Kindle Unlimited / Sci-Fi & Fantasy Authors with books/series worth reading:

Kel Kade

Marko Kloos

Duncan M. Hamilton

Peter Flannery

Will Wight

Jonathan Renshaw

Hugh Howey

Jeff Wheeler

Aleron Kong

Evan winter

Lindsay Buroker

Jamie McFarlane

Scott lynch

Guy Gavriel Kay

Bryce O’Conner & Luke Chmilenko

Shirtaloon

Gary Spechko

C.B. Titus

Taran matharu

Leigh Bardugo

Mark Lawrence

Ted Chiang

Neal Stephenson

Kameron Hurley

Peng shepherd

Brian McClellan

Michael R. Miller

Chris R. Underwood

Bryce O’Conner

JF Brink

Dave willmarth

Daniel Schinhofen

SunriseCV

David north

Tom Elliot

MA Rothman

Dr. Ward Cornell

Tj renolds

Emmet Moss

E.M. Foner

Rob J. Hayes

D.I. Freed

Daniel Schinhofen

Samar Rabadi

D. Ward Cornell

Guy Gavriel Kay

Norte Flood

Eric Dontigney