Episode 2: What If? with Aaron Starmer and Lynne M. Thomas
On this episode of the STEM Read Podcast, we explore the magical little question, “What If.” Hugo-Award Winning editor, Lynne M. Thomas (https://lynnemthomas.com/) and speculative fiction author, Aaron Starmer (http://www.aaronstarmer.com/) weigh in on the importance of fostering fun and embracing genre fiction in the classroom. Aaron Starmer’s book Spontaneous was sparked by the question, “What if high school seniors started spontaneously combusting?” Lynne Thomas’s Uncanny Magazine was spurred by the question “What if there were space unicorns?”
- Sarah’s Unicorn by Bruce Coville and Katherine Coville
- Get Teaching Tips for Kristin’s Independent Study Teacher
- You can Check Out NIU’S Rare Books & Special Collections Here!
- Find a speaker from the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America
- Read Excerpts from Hugo Award-Winning Uncanny Magazine!
- Now You’re Thinking of Cheese Sauce.
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
- “That’s what’s so great about speculative fiction, when you come back to yourself you’ve learned a little bit more about who you are.” Wallpaper
- SUE the sassypants T-Rex
- Author, James Dashner
- Author, Tamora Pierce
- Author, Mark Twain
- Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor
- Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Jason Reynolds
- Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
- Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
- Spontaneous, a Book About Growing up and Blowing Up
- What Does a Wombat Even Look Like? OH NO. IT’S ADORABLE.
- Weird Al Yankovic is still crushin’ it.
- You too can struggle to pronounce Best Tent Camping in New York State
- Author, Judy Blume
- Author, Beverly Cleary
- Author, Paul Zindel
- Author, Roald Dahl
- The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs
- The Great Brain by John Dennis Fitzgerald
- “Stories are the way we put order in a world we can’t necessarily explain” Wallpaper
- Check out NIU STEAM’s Rube Goldberg Machine!
- Back to the Future Directed by Robert Zemeckis
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