Synopses & Reviews
< div=""> < div=""> < b=""> What if your teachers taught you everything& #8211; except who you really are?<> < br=""> & nbsp; < br=""> For Amelia and her friends, the strict English boarding school she lives in is all she has ever known.& nbsp; The sprawling estate, bordered by unknown territory on all four sides, is both orphanage, academy, and prison.& nbsp; The school has a large staff, but only five students, none of whom know what their real names are, or even how old they are.< br=""> & nbsp; < br=""> Precocious and rebellious, all five teenagers are more than just prodigies.& nbsp; Amelia can see in four dimensions.& nbsp; Victor can control the molecular arrangement of matter.& nbsp; Vanity can find secret passageways where none existed before.& nbsp; Colin is a psychic.& nbsp; Quentin is a warlock.< br=""> & nbsp; < br=""> And, as time goes by, they& #8217; re starting to suspect that none of them are entirely human . . . < br=""> & nbsp; < br=""> John C. Wright previous fantasy novels, the Epic Chronicles of Everness, were lavishly praised by both readers and reviewers.& nbsp; Now he embarks on an ambitious new saga that explores the overlapping boundaries of science, mythology, and the imagination.< iv=""> < iv="">
Review
"An exciting, unusual, and very satisfying ride through the author's imagination."
Chronicle
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"Wright's myth-infused fantasy looks like something older Harry Potter fans might enjoy with its creaky British boarding school setting and its five ageless orphans--Colin, Quentin, Victor, Vanity, and Amelia each with a supernatural gift." -
Publishers Weekly on
Orphans of Chaos "Wright's
Orphans of Chaos is a stylish roller-coaster ride through the best loops and swerves of science fiction and fantasy. Zelazny lovers in particular ought to love this book as much as I did." -Sherwood Smith
"A bit like C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia updated by half a century, but with more gusto." -Locus on Orphans of Chaos "I don't know if John Wright's intent for Orphans of Chaos was to write a Harry Potter for grownups. But that's what he's accomplished. . . .highly enjoyable." --SFsite
"An exciting, unusual, and very satisfying ride through the author's imagination, and the results are certainly going to make Wright even more of a hot property." --Chronicle on Orphans of Chaos
"Start of a complex mythology-based series from the author of the astonishing far-future Golden Age trilogy . . . . Fascinatingly, dazzlingly...erudite fantasy that trends inexorably toward science fiction; addicts will pounce." -Kirkus, starred review on Orphans of Chaos
Review
"Wright's myth-infused fantasy looks like something older Harry Potter fans might enjoy."
Publishers Weekly
Review
"A bit like C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia updated by half a century, but with more gusto."
Locus
Review
"Wright's Orphans of Chaos is a stylish roller-coaster ride through the best loops and swerves of science fiction and fantasy."
Sherwood Smith
Review
"Fascinatingly, dazzlingly...erudite fantasy."
Kirkus, starred review
Synopsis
John C. Wright burst onto the SF scene with the Golden Age trilogy. His next project was the ambitious fantasy sequence, The Last Guardians of Everness.
Wright's new fantasy is a tale about five orphans raised in a strict British boarding school who begin to discover that they may not be human beings. The students at the school do not age, while the world around them does.
The children begin to make sinister discoveries about themselves. Amelia is apparently a fourth-dimensional being; Victor is a synthetic man who can control the molecular arrangement of matter around him; Vanity can find secret passageways through solid walls where none had previously been; Colin is a psychic; Quentin is a warlock. Each power comes from a different paradigm or view of the inexplicable universe: and they should not be able to co-exist under the same laws of nature. Why is it that they can?
The orphans have been kidnapped from their true parents, robbed of their powers, and raised in ignorance by super-beings no more human than they are: pagan gods or fairy-queens, Cyclopes, sea-monsters, witches, or things even stranger than this. The children must experiment with, and learn to control, their strange abilities in order to escape their captors.
Synopsis
Raised in a strict British boarding school, five orphans discover that they possess unusual powers, from psychic premonitions to the ability to rearrange matter, and when they learn that they have been kidnapped from their parents and are not aging at the same rate as other people, they formulate a desperate escape plan. Reprint.
Synopsis
What if your teachers taught you everything-except who you really are?
For Amelia and her friends, the strict English boarding school she lives in is all she has ever known. The sprawling estate, bordered by unknown territory on all four sides, is both orphanage, academy, and prison. The school has a large staff, but only five students, none of whom know what their real names are, or even how old they are.
Precocious and rebellious, all five teenagers are more than just prodigies. Amelia can see in four dimensions. Victor can control the molecular arrangement of matter. Vanity can find secret passageways where none existed before. Colin is a psychic. Quentin is a warlock.
And, as time goes by, they're starting to suspect that none of them are entirely human . . .
John C. Wright previous fantasy novels, the Epic Chronicles of Everness, were lavishly praised by both readers and reviewers. Now he embarks on an ambitious new saga that explores the overlapping boundaries of science, mythology, and the imagination.
About the Author
JOHN C. WRIGHT lives in Centreville, Virginia.