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JohnJames on Nostr: Growing up I was always a book worm šŸ› šŸ“š For me, trips to the local library were ...

Growing up I was always a book worm šŸ› šŸ“š

For me, trips to the local library were a weekly (if not twice weekly) adventure that I always looked forward toā€¦ 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 armsā€¦ smiling and showing my Mom that I struck gold šŸ™ŒšŸ¼

The smell of paper and the feel of the well worn pagesā€¦ the respectful and almost spiritual stillness that hung in the airā€¦ weighing you down with the knowledge that, in this place, we are all in our own worldā€¦ and each of us gets to choose which world to enterā€¦ that heavy silence said, ā€œrespect it, donā€™t break the spellā€¦ take what you want, and leave in peaceā€¦ā€

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 fistā€¦

My mother is a voracious reader and consumes a prodigious amount of material weeklyā€¦ we were always peas in a pod šŸ«› hanging out and reading our books together every dayā€¦

I grew up enjoying reading Sci-Fi and Fantasy booksā€¦ 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 heroā€™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 planeā€¦ along with so many other thingsā€¦

I gained so many lessons from those charactersā€¦ 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 šŸ™šŸ¼

I read all the big Sci-fi and Fantasy book years agoā€¦ and for years was trying to find new authors to readā€¦ I donā€™t like to support Amazon, being a minimalist who buys locally produced and made goodsā€¦ but their Kindle Unlimited platform has attracted a huge amount of talented new authors, giving them a place to access the worldā€¦ For me, itā€™s been one of the best programs Iā€™ve ever paid for at $12 monthlyā€¦ being able to carry around a Kindle with over 1000 books on it is a luxury that I am so grateful forā€¦

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 genresā€¦ 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 heroā€™s and heroines,be inspired to be braveā€¦ to have courageā€¦ to face your fearsā€¦ to do what is right, despite the consequencesā€¦ and to live your life as the hero of your own story šŸ«”āœŠšŸ¼

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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 Oā€™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 Oā€™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
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