The Sinners of Erspia are the inhabitants of a bizarre world, ruled and guided by the hands of Ormazd and Ahriman, twin gods of good and evil. Histrina, a child of Ormazd, is taken by the evil hordes to a world of terror where she meets Laedo, a man stranded far from his home.Together they start on a hallucinatory journey to understand and to escape from the surreal world that holds them prisoner.This is a novel about the susceptibility of the human mind and how it adapts to the extremes of terror and delight. A novel that could only have escaped from the astounding imagination of Barrington Bayley.

“Bayley is the zen master of modern science fiction.”— Bruce Sterling

“The most original SF writer of his generation.”— Michael Moorcock