SOURCE: "Brothers of the Head: Brian W. Aldiss's Psychological Landscape," in Spectrum of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Sixth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, edited by Donald Palumbo, Greenwood Press, 1985, pp. 119-26.

In the following essay, Collings analyzes the novella Brothers of the Head, revealing the psychological elements of the narrative and lauding the book's structure and treatment of the human condition.

In a 1968 letter, Brian Aldiss described the declining state of the West:

It's a curious climate over here at present—people very uneasy, with devaluation and now the withdrawals from Singapore, etc.; suddenly it's as if we hardly knew the world. The next few years look as if they could be tough. It seems the States also has similar feelings of unease over Vietnam. With that, and with de Gaulle ruling with his dead hands in Europe, it seems as if the...