John C. Wright established himself at the forefront of contemporary fantasy with <i>Orphans of Chaos</i>, which launched a new epic adventure. Wright's new fantasy,&nbspcontinuing in <i>Fugitives of Chaos</i>, is&nbspabout 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. &nbsp Amelia is apparently a fourth-dimensional being; Victor is a synthetic man who can 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.&nbspThey must&nbsplearn to their strange abilities in order to escape their captors. Something very important must be at stake in their imprisonment.