Alienating the Audience
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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.
fiction ·en ·170 episodes
The Friendly Hivemind of Pluribus
This is How the World Ends: Apocalypse in Science Fiction
"Scream" meets "The Truman Show": The Cabin in the Woods
Let's Argue About the Prime Directive
The Last Starfighter
Women Can Electrocute You
Time Loops
Holy Space Capitalism of the Feringi
Cheating with a Sexbot
"Alien" is Dudes Afraid of Getting Knocked Up
A Canticle for Leibowitz
A. I. As Monkeypaw Slaves
A Clockwork Orange's Secret Extra Chapter
Faster Than Light Travel in Sci-Fi
Stay Your Age Right Now Forever
All The Gods Suck, Except "Circe"
"1984" According to Julia
The Zen of Robots
Much Ado About Garak
Doublethinking George Orwell's 1984
Why Picard's Last Season Is So Much Better Than The Others
Super-Intelligent Spiders And A Sleeper Ship: Children of Time
The Corporate Dystopia of Jennifer Government
There Are Infinite You's in the Multiverse
Escaping the Truman Show
Snowcrash Created the Metaverse
Shrinkage!
Meeting Celebrities at Sci-Fi Conventions
Soylent Green is People!
The Hilarious Fantasy of Terry Pratchett
Strange New Worlds is the Star Trek We Deserve!
Trapped In John Malkovich
Reproduction in the Final Frontier
Intergalactic Politics in "The Expanse"
Nixon Selling Pizza on the Moon
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
If You Leave the Holodeck On Too Long...
Peacemaker is the Ultimate Loserhero
Send in the Clones
The Ineffable Planet of Sentient Goo
Rick And Morty is Hilarious Nihilism
The Fifth Element Is Teenage Scifi
Irritating Vulcans in "Enterprise"
Lady Terror in "Don't Worry, Darling"
Jesuits in Space!
The Sith are Emo Fascists
"They Live" is fear of Reagonomics
If Sociopaths Had Super Powers: The Boys
But What if We Swapped Brains?
Only You Can Save JFK - Stephen King's "11/22/63"
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