Dissecting Worlds Series 7, Episode 6: The Iron Council

Red flags flying the Dissecting World duo man the barricades & storm China Melville's revolutionary fantasy novel 'The Iron Council. In so doing they shunt through such topics as: - Industrialisation & Imperialism - Terrorism v Freedom Fighting - The coffee house & twitter revolutionaries Steaming through universes as divergent as Tolkien, Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadows of the Apt, Game of Thrones & Conan's Hyboria they consider: - Does fantasy have to be conservative ? - Do revolution narratives need a certain technological base ? - The democratic nature of guns (& or crossbows). Kehaars blog post on guns in fantasy mentioned is here : http://clarkythecruel.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/gunpowder-in-fantasy-rpgs/ Forgotten Planet Kickstarter link http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/339233852/forgotten-planet-by-peter-rogers-and-giancarlo-car

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