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The Blindboy Podcast
The strange English dystopian Sci Fi Novel about Ireland
Season 1, Ep. 241
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Ossians Ride is an unintentionally hilarious paranoid English novel written in 1959 about a futuristic Ireland that can obtain nuclear weapons from Turf. I pick it apart and contrast it with other Dystopian fiction. Long Hot Takes
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