The+Artemis+Fowl+Series

=The Artemis Fowl Series= by Eoin Colfer

Long ago, humans fought a war with the faries and forced them underground, to live in what now is a technologically advanced cave. In the present, no one knows that faries even exist, but there //have// been a few minor glitches; humans sighting faries accidentaly when they ventured aboveground. These have been corrected by mind-wipes, however.

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//Somehow// Artemis Fowl the Second, a 12 year old prodigy whose father is considered dead and whose mother is bedridden, finds out about faries, their sacred Book and their treasured gold. Since the Fowls are a criminal empire and their motto is "aurum postestas est" or "Gold is Power", Artemis is determined to get the gold from the faries.=====

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Some of you might think, "How can a 12-year-old do that?" Hey don't forget, he's a genius. Nevertheless, genii can make mistakes too. And since he is a genius, his mistakes can be rather large, sometimes coming close to destroy the fairy and/or the human civilization. Follow the series of Artemis Fowl, going all the way up to the recent sixth book, Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox, and you will be astonished at just how much of a genius this seemingly harmless boy can be.=====

An excellent read for pre-teens and teenagers. The way Colfer combines science-fiction and fairytales, cobbled with the troubles, mistakes and marvellous victories of a child genius will astound.
Shilpa!! ;)

=Artemis Fowl=

In the first adventure of the Artemis Fowl series, Artemis kidnaps a LEPrecon(Lower Elements Police Reconicence) officer- Captain Holly Short while she is performing her magic restoration ritual, and holds her to ransom. Artemis also discovers from the hoard of technology with Captian Short that the faries are not mideival maniacs, but very scientific races.

Artemis, along with his bodyguard, the ferocious Butler, takes Captian Short to a specially prepared concrete chamber in his house, Fowl Manor's vast basement. He meanwhile sends a message to The People(A name for all fairy races) with a stolen LEP Locator, a detonator and 1 kg of semtex, via Comander Root- that he is not someone to be toyed with.

With the delicate balance of the ignorance of humans towards The Poeple hanging in the balance, the LEP sends in Commandeer Root to negotiate with the Irish child prodigy, that is after the technical genious -Foaly the centaur plants an 8 hour time stop aruond the house. After some serious negotiation, not to mention tittering, Artemis warns Root not to enter the house, or let anyone of his kind do the same, which is a law stated in The Fairy Bible.

What follows this is utter chaos, and some changes of balance and commandership. These incude farting keplomatic dwarves, and mountanious 5 meter trolls, not to mention Captian Short's completion of the ritual using an acorn concealed in her sock.

After a while, the LEP sends in the gold demanded by Fowl, in exchange oh Holly and then prepares to bio-bomb the area within the manor walls and retrieve the gold. After the solinium flares of the bomb had passed, Captian Short and LEP commorades enter the dwelling, all except Holly rushing back out to prevent puking and nausea. As soon as the time stop finishes, Holly finds that Artemis and his pet gorilla are alive. As per the Fairy law, Artemis is allowed to keep the gold which he seperated from the fairies.

This book is a must read for all avid readers and science fiction fans. It is the next hit series after Harry Potter and The Lord of The Rings.

Siddhant :-)