Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
European Edition cover of Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
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| Author | Eoin Colfer |
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| Illustrator | Stefan van Bolderick |
| Cover artist | Melvyn Grant Ellice M. Lee (design) |
| Country | Ireland |
| Language | English |
| Series | Artemis Fowl series |
| Genre | Children's Fantasy novel |
| Published | 2 August 2006 Puffin Books |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback), Audiobook CD |
| Pages | 384 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 76849597 |
| Preceded by | The Opal Deception (2005) |
| Followed by | The Time Paradox (2008) |
Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (known as Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony in Europe) is the fifth book in the Artemis Fowl Series by Irish writer Eoin Colfer. The book, originally expected to be published in the UK and Ireland on 7 September 2006, was shipped to stores early. On 12 September of the same year, The Lost Colony became available in the US, and was released soon to other countries. It is followed by Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox.
In Barcelona, Spain, Artemis Fowl II and Butler, his bodyguard, wait for a demon. They suddenly encounter a demon who transports Artemis through time. Before Artemis is lost in time, Butler is able to get a hand on Artemis and pull him back to the present, thanks to the silver cuffs he is wearing. Meanwhile, Wing Commander Vinyáya brings Holly Short and Mulch Diggums, who have recently been working on their semi-successful PI business, to secret organisation Section Eight, an elite squad whose work includes the monitoring of demon activity. The island of Hybras was lifted out of time at the battle of Tailte by the demon warlocks to allow the demons to recover so they could resume the fairy war with humans. However the process went wrong and the demons have been unable to return. Occasionally demons appear on Earth when they are pulled back due to their strong connection to the Moon. Foaly informs Holly that Artemis was able to predict such a demon materialisation when Section 8 could not. Holly is sent to ask Artemis how he could chart the information so accurately.
On Hybras, which is suspended in "Limbo" (where time is nonexistent), №1, an imp, is bullied because he is the oldest imp not to have "warped" (changed into a mature demon), and is repulsed by the desire of his kind to return to Earth and take revenge on humanity. After accidentally turning a wooden skewer into stone, №1 wonders if he is the first warlock since the battle of Tailte, when all the warlocks were supposedly killed during the casting of the time-spell, trapping Hybras in Limbo. Leon Abbot, the last survivor and warhero of the battle of Tailte, now leader of the demon pride, uses something suspiciously like the mesmer to urge №1 to jump into the island's volcano (used to cast the time-spell) and reach the human world.
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