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There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I will bear them, because the alternative is too terrible. -Artemis Fowl, The Lost Colony

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Eoin Colfer
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: May 14
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Science Fiction Writer
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Wexford
Lost
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Affected
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Fowl
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Artemis
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Colony
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