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Barefoot in the Head
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'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.
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Praise for Barefoot in the Head
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One of the most significant writers of speculative fiction - Guardian
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Mirrors fantastically the violence and destruction of our times ... an extraordinary book ... a dark, sombre, sustained vision ... dense and powerful - The Listener
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The most ambitious psychedelic sci-fi novel of the era - Conceptual Fiction
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Extraordinarily inventive - Oxford Mail
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An extremely urgent criticism of life in the present - Daily Telegraph
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An extraordinary tour-de-force - Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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