The science fiction series Doctor Who and Star Trek have survived cancellation and continue to attract a huge fan following, with Doctor Who having appeared in nine different guises and Star Trek now approaching its fourth television incarnation. Science Fiction Audiences explores the immense popularity of the two series as multiple sources of meaning and pleasure asking what it is that elicits such strong and active audience responses. Is it their particular intervention into the sci-fi genre? Their expressions of peculiarly American and British national cultures? Their ideologies and...