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Alienating the Audience is a fiction podcast hosted by Andrew Heaton. It has 170 episodes, with the latest published January 2026.

Andrew Heaton and an army of nerds plunge deep, deep into films, books, and TV shows to ask: what's science fiction really about? What is The Twilight Zone really exploring? What are the underlying themes of Star Trek? What is the worldview of Star Wars? Also sometimes Heaton performs comedy on other planets.

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The Friendly Hivemind of Pluribus

2

This is How the World Ends: Apocalypse in Science Fiction

3

"Scream" meets "The Truman Show": The Cabin in the Woods

4

Let's Argue About the Prime Directive

5

The Last Starfighter

6

Women Can Electrocute You

7

Time Loops

8

Holy Space Capitalism of the Feringi

9

Cheating with a Sexbot

10

"Alien" is Dudes Afraid of Getting Knocked Up

11

A Canticle for Leibowitz

12

A. I. As Monkeypaw Slaves

13

A Clockwork Orange's Secret Extra Chapter

14

Faster Than Light Travel in Sci-Fi

15

Stay Your Age Right Now Forever

16

All The Gods Suck, Except "Circe"

17

"1984" According to Julia

18

The Zen of Robots

19

Much Ado About Garak

20

Doublethinking George Orwell's 1984

21

Why Picard's Last Season Is So Much Better Than The Others

22

Super-Intelligent Spiders And A Sleeper Ship: Children of Time

23

The Corporate Dystopia of Jennifer Government

24

There Are Infinite You's in the Multiverse

25

Escaping the Truman Show

26

Snowcrash Created the Metaverse

27

Shrinkage!

28

Meeting Celebrities at Sci-Fi Conventions

29

Soylent Green is People!

30

The Hilarious Fantasy of Terry Pratchett

31

Strange New Worlds is the Star Trek We Deserve!

32

Trapped In John Malkovich

33

Reproduction in the Final Frontier

34

Intergalactic Politics in "The Expanse"

35

Nixon Selling Pizza on the Moon

36

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

37

If You Leave the Holodeck On Too Long...

38

Peacemaker is the Ultimate Loserhero

39

Send in the Clones

40

The Ineffable Planet of Sentient Goo

41

Rick And Morty is Hilarious Nihilism

42

The Fifth Element Is Teenage Scifi

43

Irritating Vulcans in "Enterprise"

44

Lady Terror in "Don't Worry, Darling"

45

Jesuits in Space!

46

The Sith are Emo Fascists

47

"They Live" is fear of Reagonomics

48

If Sociopaths Had Super Powers: The Boys

49

But What if We Swapped Brains?

50

Only You Can Save JFK - Stephen King's "11/22/63"

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