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Product details
- ISBN 9781399635400
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 20 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
