I was reading the wikipedia entry to a book called Iron Council and there's this passage in there:
"Still, fantasy fiction is usually fabulously conservative, and Iron Council – with its implicit trade unionism, as well as the fact that many characters are casually bisexual – stands as a rebuke to the genre's medieval politics."
And I'm wondering, is that really true, that fantasy fiction is conservative? Conservative in what sense, what kind of views are typically expressed?
Do writers (and maybe readers) of conservative fiction tend to be conservative?