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Ossian's Ride is a science fiction novel by British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, published in 1959. Plot summary. In the 1970 of this story, Eire has become an authoritarian police state, made somewhat acceptable to the population by the vast wealth flowing from a secret and forbidden science zone occupying a large area of the South-West.
The year is 1970. Sealed behind an impenetrable barrier in the south of Ireland, the Industrial Corporation of Eire startles the rest of the world with its efficiency, its brilliance ... and its utter ruthlessness. To penetrate the barrier is to invite a swift and silent death.
Sep 23, 2020 · 252 pages : 19 cm. For several years Ireland has been pulling inexplicably further and further ahead of the rest of the world, technologically, and the rest of the world-- including British Intelligence -- would like to know how.
Oct 22, 2019 · In 1959 the British astronomer Fred Hoyle published his science fiction novel, Ossian’s Ride, depicting a future Ireland miraculously transformed into a technological superpower. Vast highways crisscrossed the Irish countryside.
by Fred Hoyle (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.1 21 ratings. See all formats and editions. Baffled by the sudden rise of a powerful centre of industrialisation in the south of Ireland, Intelligence in London send a young Cambridge graduate, Thomas Sherwood, to study this phenomenon.
Ossian's Ride. Fred Hoyle. Berkeley Publishing Corporation, 1961 - Industrialization - 153 pages. An English scientist is sent behind the Irish "Iron Curtain" in 1970 ...
May 12, 2016 · In addition to being the man who coined the term 'the Big Bang', world-renowned astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle also produced a fine body of science fiction. This omnibus contains three of his SF novels:...
