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    Alienating the Audience

    Alienating the Audience

    Alienating the Audience

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    Length:
    142 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    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.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 142 episodes

    Title

    The Zen of Robots

    Season Finale! In which we talk about how to use sci-fi robots for helpful psychologica...

    32 minutes
    		Jan 04, 2024

    Much Ado About Garak

    Star Trek Deep Space Nine's Elim Garak is a simple, unassuming character. But also a sp...

    61 minutes
    		Dec 04, 2023

    Doublethinking George Orwell's 1984

    Is 1984 prophetic, or merely a terrifying dystopia? What makes this haunting book so en...

    96 minutes
    		Nov 16, 2023

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

    Star Trek: Picard recently wrapped up its third and final season--and the first season ...

    74 minutes
    		Nov 09, 2023

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

    Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time" tackles multi-generational sleeper ships, uplif...

    48 minutes
    		Nov 02, 2023

    The Corporate Dystopia of Jennifer Government

    In this satirical novel by Max Barry, the United States is a corporate wasteland with r...

    77 minutes
    		Oct 27, 2023

    There Are Infinite You's in the Multiverse

    How does the multiverse shake out in science fiction? What are the tropes, and what are...

    46 minutes
    		Oct 19, 2023

    Escaping the Truman Show

    In “The Truman Show,” Jim Carey’s character is the unwitting star of a global reality t...

    67 minutes
    		Oct 12, 2023

    Snowcrash Created the Metaverse

    Neil Stephenson's "Snowcrash" looked at the embryonic Internet and projected a future o...

    50 minutes
    		Oct 03, 2023

    Shrinkage!

    In this episode we talk about all the times people get tiny in science fiction, from "H...

    49 minutes
    		Sep 26, 2023