I never read any Sci Fi growing up; it just didn’t appeal to me.
A few years ago I discovered Blake Crouch and read all of his books and got hooked. I also ready his ‘Wayward Pines’ series which they made into a serial, but I haven’t seen that. Also top notch.
Then, of course, I started on all the ‘classic’ Sci Fi writers and it’s been wonderful. :)
Philip Jose Farmer, the “Riverworld” series of novels was very unusual, challenging effects on one’s soul-consciousness. A Hugo-award class writer, about contemporary to the age of my father.