Everyone Is An Alien: A YA Sci-Fi Podcast: Recent Episodes
Lauren Corley
On Everyone Is An Alien, host and future educator Lauren Corley explores the origins and evolution of the Science Fiction genre, how Young Adult books adapted and adopted common themes within Sci-Fi, and the full extent of the writing process when creating a YA Sci-Fi novella.
To start off Everyone Is An Alien, we're taking a deep dive into the science-fiction timeline before connecting it back to cryogenics technology and Beth Revis' Across the Universe.
What does the bridge between science-fiction and fantasy look like? How do we know if we reached that bridge? Lauren takes a long-term analysis of Legendborn by Tracy Deonn to figure out the answers and discuss the power of YA science-fiction at the end of season 1 and episode 6.
We’re going back to the beginning. Yes. That beginning. How did Margaret Cavendish come up with The Blazing World? How can ancient stories connect to YA science-fiction in the present? In this episode I bring along my guest and aunt, Tina Shaw, and try to figure out answers to these questions by having a slightly comical and casual conversation about it all.
How does someone write a YA science-fiction novel like Iron Widow? We examine the power of culturally relevant Science-Fiction and more within this episode. Writer Chris Jackson will be chiming in as well with an outside perspective or two, making the next 20 minutes a whirlwind of fantastical fun.
What part does the apocalypse have in YA Science-Fiction? How does The 100 Series fit in with the science-fiction tradition, and how did Kass Morgan create the series? This episode looks closer at Clarke Griffin as a feminine protagonist, the world beyond her, and the power of apocalyptic YA fiction. On top of that, guest speaker and experienced educator David Zeagler also has a few things to say about how apocalyptic fiction fits into the classroom.
Who was Mary Shelley and why is she touted as the mother of Science-Fiction? This episode is a lengthy analysis of Shelley as a writer and her most famous creation, Frankenstein, as well as a conversation on the power of young writers.
During this short episode, Lauren reviews and discusses season 12 of Something Was Wrong, a crime and human nature podcast.
To start off Everyone Is an Alien, we're taking a deep dive into the Science-Fiction timeline before connecting it back to cryogenics technology and Beth Revis' Across the Universe.