阿特米斯奇幻歷險(Artemis Fowl)第1集:精靈的贖金
2009年新版封面
傳說中,在遙遠的天空彩虹尾端藏著精靈界的黃金,但是,這個祕密只有精靈知道,現在,有個泥土人打算竊取這批黃金,
他,就是阿特米斯.法爾!
愛爾蘭的法爾家族是國際知名的怪異家族。幾世紀以來,他們用各種手段,將財富累積到變合法財產,但是一旦合法後,又會覺得沒意思,立刻將財物物歸原主。而家族年僅12歲的阿特米斯.法爾,更被世人推崇為自莫札特以來少見的奇才。
阿特米斯的父親在一次運送貨物至俄羅斯途中,和25萬罐可樂一同消失在冰天雪地裡,家族重擔因而落到阿特米斯肩上。為了重振家業,他四處搜尋傳說中的精靈,更在獲得精靈界的至寶:精靈之書後,開始策劃一宗綁架計畫以換取傳說中的精靈黃金。
在這場與精靈族的鬥智中,他將如何與精靈談判?他真的能從一切科技皆超越人類的精靈手中奪取黃金嗎?
一場人類與精靈的大戰即將展開!
★英國史密斯書店(WHSmith)年度Top
★2001英國最佳童書獎
★英國BBC「The Big Read大閱讀」Top100
★英國比司托年度最佳童書獎
☆本書中譯本《精靈的贖金:阿特米斯奇幻歷險1》由天培出版
Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius-and, above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories; these fairies are armed and dangerous.
Artemis thinks he has them right where he wants them, but then they stop playing by the rules.
作者簡介
艾歐因.寇弗(Eoin Colfer)
生於愛爾蘭東南部海邊小鎮威克斯福,早年即開始從事寫作。他的第一部小說《班尼和歐瑪》甫問世即躍上暢銷排行榜。2001年夏天,他完成了風靡歐美的奇幻大作:《阿特米斯奇幻歷險》,不僅長期占據國際暢銷書排行榜,獲得多項大獎,甚至在歐美各大圖書排行榜上屢次超過《哈利波特》系列。目前本系列已經授權43個國家和地區,全球銷售1,300萬冊,這使得艾歐因躋身最受歡迎的青少年文學作家之列,更是繼J.K.羅琳後,英倫半島童書界最大的奇蹟!目前艾歐因與妻子和兩個兒子定居於愛爾蘭,過著充滿想像力的生活。
Eoin Colfer is the author of the internationally best-selling Artemis Fowl series, which has been translated into forty languages, most of them human. Other titles include The Wish List, The Supernaturalist, and Half Moon Investigations, which was made into a hit TV series by the BBC. His books have won several awards, including the British Children’s Book of the Year, the German Children’s Book of the Year, and a Betelgeusean Bloater award for shortest newcomer, which he keeps in his head as it is radioactive and scares the children.