Michael Bunker
Michael Bunker
is a USA Today Bestselling author, off-gridder, husband, and father of
four children. He lives with his family in a “plain” community in
Central Texas, where he reads and writes books…
and occasionally tilts at windmills.
Michael is widely considered the “father” of the Amish/Scifi genre, and
he is the author of several popular and acclaimed works of dystopian
sci-fi, including the Amazon top 20 bestselling Amish Sci-fi thriller the
Pennsylvania Omnibus, the groundbreaking dystopian vision Hugh Howey
called “a brilliant tale of extra-planetary colonization.” He also has
written the epic post-apocalyptic
WICK series,
The Silo Archipelago (set
in Hugh Howey’s World of WOOL), as well as many nonfiction works,
including the non-fiction Amazon overall top 30 bestseller
Surviving Off
Off-Grid. Michael was commissioned by Amazon.com through their Kindle
Worlds program to write the first commissioned novel set in the World of
Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle. That book is entitled
Osage Two Diamonds,
and it debuted December 2013. Michael has been featured on NPR and
HuffPost Live and was recently
interviewed in a
Medium.com article that
will give you more background and insight into his life and works.
On November 2014
Tales From Pennsylvania, a fanfic short story anthology
featuring 10 top speculative fiction authors writing fanfic short
stories in the world of Michael Bunker’s Pennsylvania, was released in
paperback and e-book format. There are more than 20 authors currently
writing fanfic in the world of Michael’s Pennsylvania.
Michael recently joined with hybrid bestselling author Nick Cole (author
of The Wasteland Saga and Soda Pop Soldier) and book marketing guru and
coach Tim Grahl (author of Your First 1,000 Copies) to form a new
company called Wonderment Media. Wonderment is launching a new
apocalyptic world called Apocalypse Weird and is bringing on dozens of
the best and brightest authors in speculative fiction to write books in
the Apocalypse Weird world. Attempting something that has never been
done before in digital publishing, AW launched with a free teaser novel
on November 2014 (Nick Cole’s
The Red King) and launched five
full novels in the AW world on the same day February 23rd, 2015,
followed by new AW books every month after that. Michael Bunker and Nick
Cole wrote the apocalyptic novel
Texocalypse Now as part of the Apocalypse
Weird world.
Readers who subscribe to Michael’s newsletter
get free copies of his books, usually before they’re published.
If you are not familiar with Michael’s work, definitely start with the
Pennsylvania Omnibus! Amish-Scifi! Unless, of course, you are a huge
Kurt Vonnegut fan, then start with
Osage Two Diamonds.
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of Pennsylvania is always free when you sign up for Michael’s email
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