What will I learn about: how Artemis predicts that Hybras, a demon island hidden outside time for ten thousand years, is collapsing toward a catastrophe that could scatter its inhabitants across history?

Discover how Artemis predicts that Hybras, a demon island hidden outside time for ten thousand years, is collapsing toward a catastrophe that could scatter its inhabitants across history.

What will I learn about: Follow No1, a gentle imp mocked for refusing to become a monster, as fear awakens the ancient warlock powers that may make him crucial to saving his people?

Follow No1, a gentle imp mocked for refusing to become a monster, as fear awakens the ancient warlock powers that may make him crucial to saving his people.

What will I learn about: Watch Artemis meet his intellectual equal in Minerva Paradizo, a brilliant young rival who captures No1 to secure scientific fame and repeatedly anticipates Artemis’s rescue plans?

Watch Artemis meet his intellectual equal in Minerva Paradizo, a brilliant young rival who captures No1 to secure scientific fame and repeatedly anticipates Artemis’s rescue plans.

What will I learn about: Experience a high-stakes clash of magic and technology as Holly, Butler, Foaly, Mulch, and Doodah infiltrate Minerva’s fortified chateau using invisibility, hacking, illusions, and reckless improvisation?

Experience a high-stakes clash of magic and technology as Holly, Butler, Foaly, Mulch, and Doodah infiltrate Minerva’s fortified chateau using invisibility, hacking, illusions, and reckless improvisation.

What will I learn about: Explore the danger of manipulating time, where silver can anchor travelers, bodies and memories can be altered, and even perfect calculations may fail as Hybras’s ancient spell unravels?

Explore the danger of manipulating time, where silver can anchor travelers, bodies and memories can be altered, and even perfect calculations may fail as Hybras’s ancient spell unravels.

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The Lost Colony

When a collapsing time spell threatens to scatter an entire demon civilization across history, Artemis Fowl races a brilliant new rival to find one frightened imp who may hold the key to saving them all.

Eoin Colfer

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💡What happens when the world’s greatest teenage criminal mastermind finally meets an intellectual rival who can anticipate his every move before he even makes it?
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Key Takeaways from The Lost Colony

✓Discover how Artemis predicts that Hybras, a demon island hidden outside time for ten thousand years, is collapsing toward a catastrophe that could scatter its inhabitants across history.
✓Follow No1, a gentle imp mocked for refusing to become a monster, as fear awakens the ancient warlock powers that may make him crucial to saving his people.
✓Watch Artemis meet his intellectual equal in Minerva Paradizo, a brilliant young rival who captures No1 to secure scientific fame and repeatedly anticipates Artemis’s rescue plans.
✓Experience a high-stakes clash of magic and technology as Holly, Butler, Foaly, Mulch, and Doodah infiltrate Minerva’s fortified chateau using invisibility, hacking, illusions, and reckless improvisation.
✓Explore the danger of manipulating time, where silver can anchor travelers, bodies and memories can be altered, and even perfect calculations may fail as Hybras’s ancient spell unravels.

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Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony

Premise & Blast to the Past+

First Impression+

Imprisoned+

Sudden Impact+

Turned Tables+

Heart of Stone+

Leader of the Pack+

Home Again, Home Again+

Quiz — Test Your Understanding

Question 1 of 12

What did Butler's silver bracelet allow him to do during the demon's appearance in Barcelona?

A. Track the demon after it escaped
B. Anchor himself and pull Artemis back to the present
C. Shield Artemis from the demon's magic
D. Open a permanent portal to Hybras

Question 2 of 12

Why did Section Eight recruit Holly Short?

A. To capture Mulch Diggums and Doodah Day
B. To investigate how Artemis predicted demon appearances
C. To negotiate a peace treaty with Leon Abbot
D. To recover a stolen cache of fairy weapons

Question 3 of 12

Why had No1 failed to warp from an imp into a demon?

A. He had lost the silver bangle needed for the transformation
B. Abbot had secretly blocked his transformation with magic
C. He could not summon hatred for humans he had never met
D. His warlock abilities made transformation physically impossible

Question 4 of 12

How did Minerva Paradizo capture No1 at the Bellini Theatre?

A. She used a silver dart and a rigged trapdoor
B. She mesmerized him and concealed him in a hologram
C. She trapped him inside a silver-lined theatre box
D. She persuaded him to surrender in exchange for information

Question 5 of 12

What was the main purpose of Foaly's phantom attack on the Paradizo chateau?

A. To frighten Billy Kong into confessing
B. To destroy Minerva's laboratory permanently
C. To force an evacuation and create an opportunity to rescue No1
D. To convince Minerva that the fairies had declared war

Question 6 of 12

What did Minerva originally intend to gain by publicly presenting No1?

A. Leadership of Section Eight
B. A Nobel Prize
C. Control of Hybras
D. Access to fairy healing magic

Question 7 of 12

Why did Artemis keep Minerva occupied in a long telephone conversation?

A. To trace Billy Kong's private communications
B. To convince her to travel to Taipei
C. To distract her while Holly freed and concealed No1
D. To obtain the access code to the chateau gates

Question 8 of 12

How did the silver mass damper in Taipei 101 help Artemis rescue No1 from Billy Kong?

A. It blocked Kong's radio signals and disabled the bomb
B. It interrupted No1's passage to Hybras and made him materialize nearby
C. It amplified Holly's mesmer and placed Kong's men under her control
D. It opened a stable tunnel directly from Taipei to Hybras

Question 9 of 12

Why did Artemis take the bomb with Holly, No1, and Qwan into the dimensional opening?

A. He believed its energy could be used to control Hybras's return
B. He needed it to destroy Leon Abbot's fortress
C. He planned to trade it to the demon council for safe passage
D. He wanted Foaly to examine its time-sensitive technology

Question 10 of 12

What was the truth behind Leon Abbot's magical abilities?

A. He had stolen a spell book from Minerva and taught himself magic
B. He was secretly one of the original demon warlocks
C. He had fused with Qweffor in the time tunnel and stolen the apprentice's power
D. He drew magical energy directly from Hybras's volcano

Question 11 of 12

How did Artemis prevent the future in which Abbot killed Holly?

A. He reversed the entire time spell surrounding Hybras
B. He used mesmer to make Abbot forget the attack
C. He fired Holly's weapon at an instant when its blast traveled one minute backward
D. He transferred his hidden magic to Holly so she could heal herself

Question 12 of 12

What unexpected consequence awaited Artemis after Hybras returned to Earth?

A. He had aged into an adult while traveling through the tunnel
B. Nearly three years had passed on Earth although he experienced about one day
C. His family had moved permanently to France with Minerva
D. Butler no longer remembered him because of temporal damage

The Lost Colony — Full Chapter Overview

1Recommendation
2Blast To The Past
3First Impression
4Imprisoned
5Sudden Impact
6Turned Tables
7Heart Of Stone
8Leader Of The Pack
9Home Again, Home Again

The Lost Colony Summary & Overview

Ten thousand years ago, powerful warlocks pulled the demon island of Hybras out of time. Now their spell is failing. Demons are slipping through temporal cracks and appearing across human history, while the island itself edges toward a catastrophic return. Artemis Fowl has calculated the danger—and, as usual, he intends to reach it first.

But Artemis is no longer the only child genius watching the impossible. Minerva Paradizo, a brilliant young prodigy with her own guarded fortress and dangerous ambitions, captures an unusual imp named No1. Unlike the other demons, No1 is thoughtful, curious, and unable to transform into the savage creature his kind expects. He may also possess a long-forgotten power.

With Holly Short, Butler, Foaly, and Mulch Diggums drawn into the chase, Artemis must outthink a rival who can anticipate his moves. Time is breaking, ancient enemies are stirring, and one miscalculation could strand an entire civilization between dimensions forever.

Who Should Listen to The Lost Colony?

Listeners who love fast, funny fantasy adventures driven by elaborate schemes and impossible escapes
Artemis Fowl fans eager for time travel, fairy technology, and a new intellectual rival
Anyone who enjoys young geniuses, hidden civilizations, magical creatures, and high-stakes battles of wits

About the Author: Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer is an acclaimed Irish author best known for creating the internationally bestselling Artemis Fowl series, which blends mythology, science fiction, sharp humor, and cinematic adventure.