Barefoot in the Head

The old world no longer exists. Only its shell remains, twisted by hallucinogens. But soon, you can be sure, the wind of change will blow: a new messiah will come and bring grace with him. People no longer have a single reality—there is a flowing mixture of imagination, the past, and the present. When Colin Charteris, one of many people with distorted consciousness, is proclaimed a hero and sets out on a crusade, a chain of fantastic events, paranoid visions, and disasters begins—events capable of bringing civilization to an end. “Barefoot on the Head” is Brian Aldiss’s psychedelic philosophical story about the future world after total destruction. The author’s most experimental work, expanding the boundaries of what’s visible.