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Author name: John C. Wright

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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780765353870
ISBN number: 0765353873
Label: Tor Fantasy
Manufacturer: Tor Fantasy
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 368
Printing Date: June 26, 2007
Publishing house: Tor Fantasy
Release Date: June 26, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 222516
Studio: Tor Fantasy



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John C. Wright established himself at the forefront of contemporary fantasy with Orphans of Chaos, which launched a new epic adventure.

Wright’s new fantasy, continuing in Fugitives of Chaos, is 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 orphans have been kidnapped from their true parents, robbed of their powers, and raised in ignorance by super-beings: pagan gods, fairy-queens, Cyclopes, sea-monsters, witches, or things even stranger.
 
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; Colin is 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. They must learn to control their strange abilities in order to escape their captors. Something very important must be at stake in their imprisonment.




Customer Reviews
User popularity level: out of 5 stars

Rated by buyers 5 out of 5 stars - Great Fantasy Read! Great Author!
I loved the Golden Age trilogy (was HIGHLY recommended by a friend) and I LOVE this series! His range and depth is truly impressive. Take the leap and enter the mythos!

-bigbirdtommy


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Super Reader
Pretty apt title.

The four children, or teenagers, or ancient Chaos entities, however you prefer to think of them, are finally old enough and sure enough of themselves to decide that making a break for it is a good plan.

First they need to recover their memories, and abilities.

"You are thinking of these things as super-powers, aren't you?" ... "Like a mechanism you turn on and off. I don't think it works that way." opines Quentin.

Many mistakes, terrors, arguments about who should be boss and escapes follow.

Not to mention magic ships and cruises.

"The second most horrible moment of my life. My friends were doing experiments, fascinating new experiments, and getting new super-powers, all without me!" laments Amelia, on the downside of actually being the boss and putitng yourself in danger.

The five have to work out if the theories about the various Chaos powers and opposition are correct, and avoid being dragged into a world-destroying war.


3.5 out of 5


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Excellent
This was as good as the very first book. I was kept interested in the resolution of all the problems, and he introduced new, interesting problems. The characterization was excellent, and the pacing was also good.


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - Better than the very first book
After reading the very first book in the series (Orphans of Chaos) I wasn't very impressed. It was a good book, but I wasn't sure if the subsequent book would be worth the effort.
Fugitives of Chaos is much better than the book before it. Even if you only kinda liked the very first book, I recommend that you read this one. The technobabble is still there (but less of it), and the story goes a little smoother.


Rated by buyers 4 out of 5 stars - A zinger Book Two of the CHAOS Trilogy!

ORPHANS OF CHAOS introduced five boarding school students who discovered, beneath a physical and conditional facade, they were far greater beings than the awkward human teenagers they thought themselves. They were actually gods (as in Greek; as in thought to be mythical and thus unreal by twenty-first century earth dwellers; as in not unreal at all in this John C. Wright universe) taken hostage in a Titanic war! Spying on their "elders," the band of five learned of the Machiavellian motives for their forced confinement and amnesia. They fought their captors valiantly but appeared vanquished as Part One cliffhung.

FUGITIVES OF CHAOS portrays the fives' struggle to regain lost memory and powers, escape their god-too jailers, and penetrate the maze of politics and strategy underpinning the cataclysmic struggle between Cosmos and Chaos that holds the key to their fate.

Or perhaps it is the reverse, and the five "young people" hold the true key to the fate of the struggle between Chaos and Cosmos? They may also be mankind's and all life's only hope for survival!

Victor, the "robot" man; Amelia, the dimension-crosser; Vanity, the dream tunneler; Colin, the psychic; and Quentin, the witch (he may really be a she), all risk life and limb to breach the boundaries of the only place they remembered as home -- the old-fashioned school by a fishing village called Abertwyi. Believing themselves freed, they experience bits of the world such as hitchhiking, "Jerry's Fine Cafe" on Christmas, Paris stores, Vanity's magic sea craft, and luxury on "The Queen Elizabeth II" sailing for New York.

As in ORPHANS, FUGITIVES serves up a cornucopia of sci-fi/fantasy ideas. Since all five "teenagers" interpret the world from their own separate paradigms, they describe their perceptions differently. Amelia, for instance, is the geometrician of the group, while Colin reckons through the psychic's angle of personal responsibility. These differences require a great deal of group communication to enable understanding and cooperation.

Indeed, a large component of both CHAOS books published thus far is talk; the old writer's saw about showing rather than explaining isn't always observed. Not only "must" the five engage in long discussions with each other, but the sheer complexity of Wright's theme relegates other gods besides the teens to protracted explications. Although Amelia is the primary first-person narrator throughout the novels (so far anyway), other characters tell of adventures they had away from Amelia. Vanity, for instance, tells her companions about overhearing two Cosmos-camp gods -- Boreas and a Centurion Infantophage -- speculate at length about which Chaos god might try to seize the throne of "the entire sidereal universe." This dialogue means to enlighten the readers, along with the five, about the cast of potential threats in and the direction of the third volume of CHAOS. It does, but keeping track of all those gods (a single entity is often referred to by several monikers) is a bit mind-spinning for readers less conversant than Wright with mythology.

And since the young heroes of this trilogy are ostensibly teenagers, they retain that maturity level by and large. So, there is a lot of adolescent ribald ribbing and sexual innuendo (though serious sexual aggression is left to the "adults" and even then is more threat than act), as well as general silliness and cluelessness. Usually, this banter is welcome, but at certain crises stages where the five waste precious time debating and smart-mouthing, one wonders why their adversaries don't press full advantage to smartly subdue them! One wants to cuff the kids into faster action. At least, I did.

The concluding threat in FUGITIVES OF CHAOS is a beaut! The five do engage in a bit of their usual fumbling and arguing, but they spring to action pretty fast. And what action. Kudos to the author for a riveting springboard into TITANS OF CHAOS. I can't wait. April 2007 isn't that far away.



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