Barefoot in the Head (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian W. Aldiss
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—dystopia
- Time of Work: The near future
- Setting: Western Europe
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Dystopian fiction
- Subjects: Freedom, Europe or Europeans, Revolutions, Future, Dreams, War, Death or dying, Fantasy, Drugs, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Hallucinations or illusions, Environment or environmental health, Christ figures or saviors, End of the world, Western Europe or western Europeans, Horror, Chemical warfare
- Locales: Europe
The Plot
Colin Charteris is a nineteen-year-old Jugo-slav and an official in the New United Nations Strategic Air Command (NUNSACS). That agency has an osten-sible mission of aiding in the rehabilitation of war victims in a Europe maddened by psychedelic bombs. Told in episodic form, the story follows Charteris as he wends his way across the continent, driving a Banshee into repeated auto crashes, moving from the south of France toward England, and eventually returning to his home.
In Metz, his hallucinogenic vision leads him to discover that time is merely a fabrication...
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