Barefoot in the Head

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 *

Brian Wilson Aldiss was born in 1925. He was a highly decorated science fiction author who achieved the rare feat of acceptance as a writer of real significance by the literary establishment in his lifetime. As well as his many award-winning novels he has been a hugely important anthologist and editor in the field. He also wrote the pre-eminent history of the genre (with David Wingrove), Trillion Year Spree. He died in 2017 the day after his 92nd birthday.