Barefoot in the Head
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Published:20th Nov '25
Should be back in stock very soon
'An extraordinary book' The Listener
'An extremely urgent criticism of the present' Daily Telegraph
The earth is recovering from the Acid Head War, in which hallucinogenic chemicals were the primary weapon. Many humans are now suffering from delusions and are unable to tell the real from the imaginary.
When a man named Colin Charteris tries to make sense of the drugged-out world, he is taken as the new messiah. As he descends into paranoid visions, he begins to believe this himself.
Mirrors fantastically the violence and destruction of our times ... an extraordinary book ... a dark, sombre, sustained vision ... dense and powerful * The Listener *
The most ambitious psychedelic sci-fi novel of the era * Conceptual Fiction *
Extraordinarily inventive * Oxford Mail *
The kind of breakthrough which crushes criticism with admiration * Western Mail *
An extremely urgent criticism of life in the present * Daily Telegraph *
An extraordinary tour-de-force * Encyclopedia of Science Fiction *
ISBN: 9781399635400
Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 22mm
Weight: 227g
256 pages