Colfer, Eoin. The eternity code.Hyperion. 309p. c2003. 078681914-6. $16.95. J * In his third outing (following Artemis Fowl and Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident), 13-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has promised his newly reformed father that he'll go straight too. But there's just one last job that needs doing ... Artemis has created a supercomputer supercomputer, a state-of-the-art, extremely powerful computer capable of manipulating massive amounts of data in a relatively short time. Supercomputers are very expensive and are employed for specialized scientific and engineering applications that must handle very called the C Cube, based on stolen fairy technology, that will make all human technology obsolete. He meets with a Chicago businessman named Jon Spiro to arrange a deal for it, but instead Spiro steals the C Cube and shoots Artemis' bodyguard, Butler. Artemis will need fairy magic to save Butler, so he must once again turn to his old enemy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police, for help. The combination of fantasy, action and humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was make for another page-turning adventure, with lots of snappy Snappy - Snappy Video Snapshot dialog and technology along the way. The continuing escapades of this junior James Bond are bound to have great appeal, based on the huge success of the previous volumes (film rights have been sold); buy several copies. Make sure to point out to readers that there is a code encrypted en·crypt tr.v. en·crypt·ed, en·crypt·ing, en·crypts 1. To put into code or cipher. 2. Computer Science into the cover illustration: can they crack it to discover the secret message? Paula Rohrlick, KLIATT J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. *--The asterisk (1) See Asterisk PBX. (2) In programming, the asterisk or "star" symbol (*) means multiplication. For example, 10 * 7 means 10 multiplied by 7. The * is also a key on computer keypads for entering expressions using multiplication. highlights exceptional books. |
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