AVATAR

The story's hero is Jake Sully, a former marine confined to a wheelchair. Bitter and disillusioned, he's still a warrior at heart. All Jake ever wanted was something worth fighting for, and he finds it in the place he least expected: on a distant world. Jake has been recruited to join an expedition to the moon Pandora, which corporate interest are strip-mining for a mineral worth nearly $20 million per kilogram on Earth. To facilitate their work, the humans use a link system that projects a person's consciousness into a hybrid of humans and Pandora's indigenous humanoids, the Na'vi. This himan-Na'vi hybrid - a fully living breathing body that resembles the Na'vi but possesses the individual humans thoughts, feelings and personality - is known as an 'avatar'

In his new avatar form, Jake can once again walk. His mission is to interact with and infiltrate the Na'vi with the hope of enlisting their help - or at least their acquiescence - in mining the ore. A beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's life, albeit reluctantly, because even in his avatar body, Jake represents to the human encroachment on the Na'vi's unspoiled world.