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/
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