num_pages: 320
description: 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 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 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.
language: English
title: Orphans of Chaos
titlecomplete: Orphans of Chaos (Chronicles of Chaos, #1)
genres: Science Fiction Fantasy, Steampunk, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Supernatural, Science Fiction, Adult
ratings_count: 2089
series: Chronicles of Chaos
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Adult Literature
publisher: Tor Books