The Iron Republic Episode 11: The Matin & The Grapevine

The Iron Republic Episode 11: The Matin & The Grapevine

Barrington lies awake in the Professor’s house, trying to decide whether the Iron Republic is real. The ship, the ice wall, the flying train and the girl downstairs all feel too strange to be true. He is a practical man, and he has just fallen for a woman he met only hours ago. At sunrise, music from an unseen source fills the whole city. It is the Matin, a hymn improvised each morning on a giant instrument and heard for miles. Out in the garden among the grapevines, Barrington learns who composed it. The answer is a name he was hoping not to hear.

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The Iron Republic Episode 13: No Votes. No Campaigns.

The Iron Republic Episode 13: No Votes. No Campaigns.

Professor Morris takes Barrington to his private office to explain how the Iron Republic is governed. Barrington can hardly believe it. There are no campaigns and no elections the way America runs the...

4 Marras 20min

The Iron Republic Episode 12: Not A Bloodless Peace

The Iron Republic Episode 12: Not A Bloodless Peace

Professor Morris has cleared his day to show Barrington the city, and the first thing he does is lend him a suit of clothes so he won’t draw crowds. Dressed like a local, Barrington is whirled across ...

20 Loka 14min

The Iron Republic Episode 10: An Evening's Entertainment

The Iron Republic Episode 10: An Evening's Entertainment

Barrington is offered an entire city's worth of entertainment on command — opera, lectures, a live orchestra piped straight into the room — and turns it all down for something simpler: he wants the pr...

6 Loka 18min

The Iron Republic Episode 9: Welcomed by a Countryman

The Iron Republic Episode 9: Welcomed by a Countryman

Barrington steps off the train into a vaulted station in the heart of the Republic's capital — and straight into a city that runs on nothing he recognizes. No horses. No noise. Streets full of gaily d...

29 Syys 20min

The Iron Republic Episode 8: No Banks, No Money

The Iron Republic Episode 8: No Banks, No Money

Barrington sets out to deposit his fortune — $50,000 in American gold — and discovers there's nowhere to put it. In the Iron Republic, gold isn't money at all, and everything he's ever understood abou...

22 Syys 21min

The Iron Republic Episode 7: The Man Who Stayed

The Iron Republic Episode 7: The Man Who Stayed

Barrington is still reeling from a broadcast unlike anything he's heard — real-time news, delivered across the Republic as if by magic — when he's introduced to Professor Morris, an American who found...

15 Syys 22min

The Iron Republic Episode 6: First Contact

The Iron Republic Episode 6: First Contact

A strange, impossibly fast vessel tears out from the hidden harbor to meet them — and its pilot has never heard of the outside world Barrington calls home. For the first time, the name "Iron Republic"...

8 Syys 11min