Jun 23, 2026 · 39 min · 12 segments
Brett sits down with debut author Meg Charlton to discuss her timely book, Voyagers. They talk about childhood friends and the life events that bond us, choosing character perspective, the human…
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And when they were six years old back in 1997, they meet on vacation and go missing for 36 hours.
And when they return, the story they tell is kind of interpreted by the adults around them as an alien abduction.
And in this kind of like late 90s X-Files media environment, they become these little kind of celebrities, these little child stars, and their families are very different.
They have very different reactions to their children's experience, to their children's fame or infamy as it were.
However, when they get into their teenage years, they start to grow apart in large part because they begin to have kind of divergent relationships to this experience and divergent beliefs about the truth of what happened to them.
And if that truth is kind of discoverable, if it matters, they have this falling out and then they reconnect in their kind of early to mid thirties when it seems like we maybe are going to make alien contact sort of quote unquote for real.
When there is this signal detected at the edge of the solar system that And Alex sees Anna on TV as kind of like a talking head talking about UFOs and abduction.
She's become sort of an experiencer advocate, which is somebody who like helps people process their contact experiences.
And he reaches back out to her and they decide to see each other again, kind of at this moment of maximum chaos as the world kind of grapples with what might be coming.
It's so funny because I was like, this couldn't be dropping at the most apropos time.
I mean, not only just with like this summer, just literary book, like the new Stephen Rowley, Take Me With You and The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Olivia, but also Disclosure Day.
And when they were six years old back in 1997, they meet on vacation and go missing for 36 hours.
And when they return, the story they tell is kind of interpreted by the adults around them as an alien abduction.
And in this kind of like late 90s X-Files media environment, they become these little kind of celebrities, these little child stars, and their families are very different.
They have very different reactions to their children's experience, to their children's fame or infamy as it were.
However, when they get into their teenage years, they start to grow apart in large part because they begin to have kind of divergent relationships to this experience and divergent beliefs about the truth of what happened to them.
And if that truth is kind of discoverable, if it matters, they have this falling out and then they reconnect in their kind of early to mid thirties when it seems like we maybe are going to make alien contact sort of quote unquote for real.
When there is this signal detected at the edge of the solar system that And Alex sees Anna on TV as kind of like a talking head talking about UFOs and abduction.
She's become sort of an experiencer advocate, which is somebody who like helps people process their contact experiences.
And he reaches back out to her and they decide to see each other again, kind of at this moment of maximum chaos as the world kind of grapples with what might be coming.
It's so funny because I was like, this couldn't be dropping at the most apropos time.
I mean, not only just with like this summer, just literary book, like the new Stephen Rowley, Take Me With You and The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Olivia, but also Disclosure Day.
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