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Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox
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"The Time Paradox" redirects here. For the time-travel paradox, see Temporal paradox. Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox is the sixth book in the Artemis Fowl series. It is preceded by Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony. The release date for the UK is 7 August 2008; the US release date was 15 July 2008.[1] In Colfer's video blogs, he mentions the book saying it may not be the last but the last one for at least 3 years.[2]
Plot
Angeline Fowl, Artemis Fowl II's mother, contacts a debiliating disease which Artemis cannot heal with his magic (stolen in Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony). When Captain Holly Short and N˚1 arrive, they identify it as Spelltropy, a fairy disease that can only be cured by the brain fluid of the silky sifaka lemur. However, the lemur is extinct, as Artemis previously sold it to a group called the "Extinctionists". He tricks Holly into believing she is responsible for Angeline's disease, and N˚1 send Artemis and Holly back in time for three days.
Artemis and Holly arrive eight years earlier and encounter Mulch Diggums. They break into the compound housing the lemur, and Artemis is injured. When Holly rescues him, she kisses him, though she later regrets her actions. When Artemis manages to attract the lemur, but is forced to release it when his younger self, also there, threatens to kill it. His younger self then flies to Morocco to sell the lemur to Dr. Damon Kronski, leader of the Extinctionists. The older Artemis and Holly manage to intercept the lemur, but eventually Holly is captured, and sold to Kronski in place of the lemur.
Kronski plans to kill Holly at the Annual Extinctionist banquet. Artemis manages to save her, but in the chaos he is thrown into a pit of fire. However, the flames are holographic. Holly, escaping, realises that Kronski has been mesmerised. Artemis, upon waking, tries to escape but is intercepted by Opal Koboi, who has been harvesting animals for their brain fluids which enhance her own magic. She also says that she has mesmerised Kronski to bring her the silky sifaka lemur which will give her the ability to control time. When he releases all the caged animals, Artemis manages to escape. Mulch, Holly, and Artemis fly by stolen shuttle to Fowl Manor, but are followed by Koboi. Upon being intercepted by his younger counterpart, Artemis reveals his identity. Mulch is captured by Opal, who sucks the information from his mind, leaving him no memory of the past few days. Holly and Artemis return to the present with the lemur, named Jayjay. Artemis, going to administer the cure to his mother, finds that Koboi has possessed his mother and also caused the sickness in the first place.
Holly and N˚1 are disabled by a mesmerised Butler. Artemis runs from Opal (in his mother's body). When she catches him, he tells her he is the Artemis from the past and the Artemis from the present is free. Older Artemis tranquilizes Opal's real body. Holly and N˚1 are freed. However, Opal recovers quickly, and chases the older Artemis, who is fleeing with Jayjay in a family airplane. When he crash lands on a set of rocks called the Nuns, Opal is about to kill him when Artemis buries her under a rockslide he initiated by blowing the shell of an undiscovered kraken underneath with a modified laser pointer. Artemis returns home to debrief the others and finds that his mother knows everything that happened to her. Artemis realises that if he hadn't gone back in time, none of his adventures with the fairies would have happened, and Opal would never have touched his mother.
The newly appointed LEPrecon Commander Trouble Kelp is digging Koboi out of the rubble when he discovers that she has vanished. Younger Artemis awakens in his own time with his mind wiped by N˚1, but vaguely remembers something to do with fairies, prompting his actions which occured in the first book.
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