Fugitives of Chaos

Wright's new fantasy, continuing now in Fugitives of Chaos, is about five orphans, raised in a strict British boarding school, who begin to discover that they are not human. The students 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 or fairy queen., 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; Vanity can find secret passageways through solid walls; Colin is a psychic; Quentin is a warlock. Each power comes from a different pare-digm or view of the 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. Something very important must be at stake in their imprisonment.

JOHN C. WRIGHT lives in Centreville, Virginia