Well, with Season 5: Leadership now done and dusted the Dissecting Duo are moving onto Season 6. This time we are looking at “Alternate Worlds”, that curious subgenre of geek fiction that looks at the big “What Ifs”.

By way of planning, and also as a way of soliciting comment, our proposed Running Order over the next few months is:

• Plague!: The Years of Rice and Salt and The Grand Flow of History
• Nazis!: The Age of World War (1914-1949)
• Romans!: Ancient and Classical Alternates.
• Americans!: War of Independance and American Civil War
• Illuminati!: Secret Histories and the Conspiracy Novel
• Victorians!: Steampunk and the Age of Imperialism
• Conclusions.

Following the success of last years Dissecting Worlds Symposium, the quarrelsome conundrums Kehaar and Matt have decided to do it again!

Symposium is an ancient Greek word for drinking party, the Dissecting Worlds approach is that listeners are hopefully future friends and the DW Symposiums are leisurely pub crawls were we can meet up and have a chat and light refreshment. It’s Kehaar’s turn to play host and it will be in Liverpool, the 31st March 2012, a mere couple of hours by train from major cities like London, Birmingham and Leeds.  Read the rest of this entry »

So, with Series 4 Conclusions out in the wild we thought we would drop by with info on the next series. The order is still to be decided, as we are hoping to line up more guests, but the subject matter “Leadership” and the episode list is:

The King: Arthur and the Price of Kingship
The Captain: Ultimate Star Trek Smackdown
The Godhead: Aslan and other deities
The First Amongst Equals: Captain America and Managing Superteams
The Scientist: The Doctor and the ‘anti-leader’
The Chosen One: Buffy Summers and the Reluctant Hero.

If any of our listeners have thoughts or angles you’d like to see us approach on this list, please give us a shout in the usual way!