Michael Bunker
Michael Bunker is a USA Today Bestselling author, renaissance man, off-grid expert, husband, and father of four children. He’s the mixologist at Lucille + Mabel restaurant, rolls cigars, makes bourbon, writes books…and occasionally tilts at windmills. In November of 2015, Variety Magazine announced that Michael had sold a film/tv option for his bestselling novel Pennsylvania to Jorgensen Pictures. JP is currently developing Pennsylvania for production into a feature film. Hollywood heavyweight and Production Design superstar Patrick Tatopoulos (Independence Day, Maleficent 2, the 300, iRobot) is slated to direct the Pennsylvania feature film. Michael currently has two film options working in Hollywood.
Michael has been called the “father” of the Amish/Scifi genre but that isn’t all that he writes. He is the author of several popular and acclaimed works of dystopian sci-fi, including the Amazon top 20 overall bestselling Amish Sci-fi thriller Pennsylvania, the groundbreaking dystopian vision Hugh Howey called “a brilliant tale of extra-planetary colonization.” He also has written the epic post-apocalyptic novel WICK, the Amish/Robot thriller Brother, Frank, as well as many nonfiction works including the non-fiction Amazon overall top 30 national bestseller Surviving Off Off-Grid. Michael was hired by Amazon.com through their Kindle Worlds and Kindle Serials programs to write the first ever commissioned novel set in the World of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.
Michael has been featured on NPR, HuffPost Live, Molly Green, and Ozy.com, along with hundreds of print, radio, and podcast interviews. He’s very pleased to be offering regular columns to BrownwoodNews.com.
MICHAEL BUNKER: The Old Lady of Brownwood
On a Sunday not long ago, we left the apartment and walked northeast on Brown Street, then across Baker and past the Taphouse. Though the chairs and tables out front were gone, the music had been left
MICHAEL BUNKER: Dressing Up: A Simple Rebellion
One of the things I write a lot about is civilization, what it took to build and maintain it, and why we’re losing it. But we’ll get back to that, because you know I’m going to take
MICHAEL BUNKER: AI Superstar
AI was just the right tool coming along at just the right moment in time. Like the Spirit of St. Louis airplane for Charles Lindbergh. Our AI man was no Brann the Iconoclast, but he wanted to
MICHAEL BUNKER: Brown County Area Guide
The temperature was in the low 40s this morning and is supposed to get into the middle 90s this afternoon. A fifty-degree swing. That’s spring in Central Texas. Maybe today we’ll go get some breakfast and later
MICHAEL BUNKER: Ideas
Most humans do not have ideas. They have no capacity for ideation. They receive ideas like goldfish receive food, sprinkled in their bowl every day from on high. This is the main purpose of memes and ‘news.’
MICHAEL BUNKER: Rainy days and Sundays
I woke up this morning to the sound of rain. It’s been a while. Living in town, it’s different. When we lived off the grid and out in the country, rain meant many good things. Water in
MICHAEL BUNKER: Right of Way
I used to think I’d die being raided by the government for wrongthink, or perhaps I’d be gored by a bull. Those ways of dying are not completely off the table, but now that we live in
MICHAEL BUNKER: Geographical Oddity
In the Bible, Jesus excoriates the scribes and Pharisees for compassing sea and land (that is, travelling far and wide) to make converts, while ignoring the hypocrisy and unbelief more local to them – the entrenched darkness
MICHAEL BUNKER: Day tripper
We’ve gotten into doing a day trip every Thursday. Tomorrow is Thursday and we haven’t yet decided where we might go. We haven’t even talked about it. My wife told me many years ago that she really