Alienating the Audience

By Andrew Heaton

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 th... more

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Alienating the Audience episodes:

April 14, 2022 Moriarty on a Starship
James Moriarty is the best villain in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Or is he a villain at all? In "Elementary, My Dear Data" and "Ship in a Bottle" the holographic character gains sentience--and wants freedom.
Josh Jennings and Andrew Young rejoin the show to discuss the character.
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1h 22min
March 24, 2022 "The Prisoner" is Deliciously Campy
Patrick McGoohan's 1967 series "The Prisoner" is an avante-garde science fiction series about a secret agent abducted by nefarious forces and subject to psychological torment in an atavistic village.

Jim Swift and Ron Hayden join to discuss the deeper meaning of the series.
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1h 1min
March 03, 2022 How to Write Kickass Science Fiction
Josh Jennings temporarily hosts the show in order to interview Andrew Heaton about what all goes into writing science fiction, a la his new book, "Inappropriately Human: 21 Short Stories."

Get your copy at:

https://www.amazon.com/Inappropriately-Human-21-Short-Stories/dp/B09S3WYDSJ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5UO16ZY0DADV&keywords=andrew+heaton+inappropriately+human&qid=1646195709&sprefix=men%27s+modal+shirt%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1
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1h 16min
March 02, 2022 "The Whistler"
From "Inappropriately Human: 21 Short Stories" by Andrew Heaton. Now available as an audio book!

Get your copy at https://www.amazon.com/Inappropriately-Human-21-Short-Stories/dp/B09S3WYDSJ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5UO16ZY0DADV&keywords=andrew+heaton+inappropriately+human&qid=1646195709&sprefix=men%27s+modal+shirt%2Caps%2C148&sr=8-1
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47min
February 24, 2022 Of Goblins and Autism
In "Vivarium," starring Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, a young couple find themselves trapped in some kind of suburban pocket universe. Their captors leave an alien infant on with the instructions "Raise the child and you will be released." Josh Jennings joins to discuss the various concepts the film plays with, including: autism, millennial adulting terror, fey folk, and suburban ennui. Find this film and others discussed on the show at www.mightyheaton.com/goodscifi
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1h 34min
February 17, 2022 Scottish Starfleet Draft Picks
Stone and Dickie Lynch return to play Starfleet Draft Picks--which captains and officers do you recruit to build your own starship and crew?
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1h 28min
January 28, 2022 Animatronic Humans of the Apocalypse
Please enjoy "Simulucrum," one of the stories from my new book, "Inappropriately Human: 21 Short Stories"!

Get a copy at:

www.mightyheaton.com/books
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55min
January 12, 2022 "The Singularity Comes For Home Office Equipment"
Enjoy this scifi piece from my new book "Inappropriately Human: 21 Short Stories." Like it? Trust me to provide some solid scifi content? Then check it out! Go to:

www.mightyheaton.com/books

Or look for "Inappropriately Human" or "Andrew Heaton" on Amazon.

Thanks!
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11min
December 09, 2021 Franchise Fatigue
When does a science fiction go on too long, add too many new characters and odd plots, or just exhaust it's fans in general?
Scottish scifi enthusiasts Stone and Dickie Lynch return to discuss
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57min
December 02, 2021 The Forever War
Joe Haldeman's novel "The Forever War" is great science fiction in and of itself, involving aliens, time dilation, and how conflicts stretch out for centuries thanks to relativity. It's also a great exploration of the nature and hopelessness of war, a la Vietnam.

Tom Merritt joins to discuss

Get the book at: https://mightyheaton.com/goodscifi
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56min

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