Barefoot in the Head [Paperback]

'...an extraordinary book - a dark, sombre, sustained vision...dense and powerful'

In the aftermath of a chemical war, Europe has become a disintegrating world populated by a traumatized people. Colin Charteris finds himself proclaimed a saviour, leading a crusade he neither understands nor can hope to win. The author also wrote "Life in the West". --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Brian Wilson Aldiss was born in Norfolk, in 1925. He wrote his first novel, The Brightfount Diaries (1955), while working as a bookseller in Oxford. But he is perhaps better known as one of the most noteworthy voices in science fiction writing. His first work of science fiction, Non-Stop, appeared in 1958. Since then, he has written over 40 novels and 300 short stories, as well as poetry and critical works, and received all of the major science fiction awards. He has reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and the Washington Post, and he has edited Science Fiction Horizons, as well as several anthologies. Brian Aldiss recently celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday and is presently working on several new books.