Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
 European cover of Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex. | |
| Author | Eoin Colfer |
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| Country | Ireland |
| Language | English |
| Series | Artemis Fowl |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Hyperion Books for Children dba Miramax Books |
Publication date | 20 July 2010 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback), Audiobook CD |
| Pages | 357 (Hardcover) |
| ISBN | 978-1-4231-2819-9 |
| OCLC | 635637067 |
| Preceded by | The Time Paradox |
| Followed by | The Last Guardian |
Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex (known as Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex in Europe) is the seventh book in the Artemis Fowl series. It was published on 20 July 2010 in the United Kingdom and on 3 August 2010 in North America.[1] It was followed by Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian, which was confirmed to be the final book in the Artemis Fowl series.
Plot
A century before the story events, the fairy elf Turnball Root, the criminal brother of his now-dead brother Commander Julius Root, finds a human woman Leoner who has crash-landed after piloting a ship. He and his companion, the sprite Unix, bring her into shelter to heal her, and some time later, Turnball, who falls in love with her, gives her a boost of magic, both delaying old age and having her love him.
But they are both separated when he is caught by Captain Holly Short and Julius Root and is sent to the Atlantis jail. He than devises a plan to escape from prison by recruiting the water elf Vishby, the jail guard of Mulch Diggums in the 4th book, and magickly convincing him despite being detained of his magic due to his criminal activities. He was able to do this by learning that drinking rice wine will give you a spark of magic daily, having this knowledge by the exiled sprite that Artemis Fowl met in the first book.
Now having Unix and Vishby by his side, with Vishby's help, he is able to enter Foaly the Centaur's program for his probe of searching for water on Mars to destroy any signal of heat or life in its path, and sends the first one to Artemis Fowl and his fairy friends in Iceland, and the second one to Atlantis itself, causing his plan to escape when the leaders of Atlantis force everyone to evacuate.
On Vatnajökull, a glacier in Iceland, Artemis unveils the Ice Cube, his invention to stop global warming (by shooting reflective nano wafers into the clouds, and having them rain down with the snow, and when they land, they reflect the sun's light and insulate the icebergs), to Captain Holly Short, Foaly, and Wing Commander Vinyáya. Artemis counts his words, and Holly and Foaly conclude that he has Atlantis Complex, a psychological fairy disease with symptoms including OCD, paranoia, and split personality disorder. Artemis's scans pick up a UFO, which was actually the probe that Turnball sent them. Foaly confirms the scans, and Artemis suddenly mentally snaps, accusing Foaly of trying to steal his invention. Holly tries mesmerizing him, but they are attacked by a Turnball's probe that Foaly designed to search for life on Mars. The craft crash lands, hits a shuttle, and instantly kills Commander Vinyáya and all LEP backup, leaving Holly, Foaly and Artemis stranded on the glacier without communications or weapons. When the probe was about to hit Artemis, Holly is forced to shoot him with her Neutrino blaster, causing him to enter a comatase state.
Artemis's bodyguard, Butler, is in Mexico. A paranoid Artemis tricked him into travelling to Cancun by telling him his sister, Juliet, now a wrestler nicknamed "Jade Princess", was in danger. He arrives there to find out that on a gigantic screen Turnball Root was mesmerizing all the fans to kill Butler and Juliet in order to get them out of the equation of his probe deception. They escape the crisis, only to find themselves in another one.
At a dwarf bar, the barkeeper is to be paid money if he gets his team of dwarfs to take out Juliet Butler, the orders being issued by Turnball. He agrees, but Mulch Diggums, who is currently using the pseudoymn "Tombstone", interferes and saves Butler and Juliet, and they look for Artemis and his fairy friends in a helicopter.
Meanwhile, when Artemis wakes up from his coma, he enters Atlantis Complex stage 2 after Holly electrocuted him. Stage 2 is commonly known as an alter ego, and releases a personality waiting in the back of Artemis's brain into the real world, who calls himself Orion, while now Artemis's original personality is stuck in the back of the brain. When the Orion personality is released, he begins talking nonsense about dragons and magic stones and about how Foaly should search his naked body for a secret birthmark that proves that he was of noble blood. He was basiclly the opposite of Artemis too, since he was guilt-free and stupid. He also happens to reveal his love to Holly Short, and believes that he is her noble hero.
When Artemis becomes Orion, they reluctantly accept them in their search and Holly discovers an escape shuttle that has fallen into a chasm, along with Artemis's project, The Ice Cube, and attaches a cord to some stone to around her waist, and attempts to go down and fly it up so that Foaly and Orion could both get on as well. She almost fails, and Orion and Foaly believe her to be dead, but are mistaken when she is able to fly the shuttle back up, and they join her.
While they track down the probe, they find out that the probe was heading straight towards Atlantis, the fairy civilization under the sea, and where Turnball Root was currently in jail, going according to his plan for prison escape. Soon they are unable to go on, because of decrease of oxygen, so to make sure while she evacuates to the air, Holly once again electrocutes Orion, along with Foaly this time.
Turnball Root's plan goes well, and when the prisoners evacuate from Atlantis, Vishby pretends to give him cuffs, allowing him to steal the jumbo pixie guard's buzz baton and knock him out. Only 2 other inmates decide to escape with him, due to risk of drowning, along with Unix, but Root leaves Vishby behind.
When he wakes up, Artemis is no longer Orion due to Captain Short electrocuting him again. He and the others contact Trouble Kelp, and they then track down Turnball Root, along with reuniting with Butler and Juliet and Mulch. Attempting to find out how Turnball had escaped, Artemis puts on a suit used for underwater and investigates, only to be attacked by a gigantic squid-like creature. He does find a machine which contained a bunch of gel, and concludes that they escaped this way so they wouldn't drown. Knowing that Foaly also created it, he asks Foaly to track down Turnball, since he also carried weapons from the machine, so Foaly is able to track him down with a computer orb connected to the machine and the weapons.
When they arrive at where Turnball was, they are mesmerized and Turnball forces them to bring the demon warlock No1 to him, whom he has kidnapped to revere the aging of Leoner, who is now a senior and who is now almost free of his love spell.
But Orion, Artemis's alter ego who is not affected by the mind control, saves №1 and Holly. Turnball has rigged a shuttle to explode, Leonor decides that she does not want to be young again and wishes only to fly one last time. She and Turnball ride deep into the ocean in the shuttle that explodes.
Artemis is his obsessive, compulsive self again and on a transport shuttle to the Argon clinic for therapy. Juliet is engaged in a wrestling match with a jumbo pixie guard. Artemis and Foaly are teasing Holly about her recent date with Trouble Kelp. Butler calls Angeline Fowl, telling her that Artemis has a fairy disease similar to OCD. Angeline wants to visit him and is very worried and upset.
Sequel
This novel is the penultimate book in the Artemis Fowl series. The eighth and final book, The Last Guardian, was released in 2012.[2][3]
References
- ↑ "Synopsis: The Atlantis Complex". Retrieved 19 September 2010.
- ↑ Lea, Richard (26 July 2010). "Eoin Colfer to bid farewell to Artemis Fowl". London: The Guardian, UK. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
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