Avatar
Jake Sully is a marine, wounded and confined to a wheelchair, who joins a research group as an "avatar driver", on the planet "Pandora". The group is attempting to befriend the hostile native people , the "Na'vi", in order to gain mining rights to "unobtanium", a rare and valuable mineral. An avatar is a body cloned from DNA derived from a human and an alien . The human becomes a "driver", remotely controlling the avatar's body through sophisticated computer-to-brain connections. Sully begins the project fully intending to gain the natives' trust, learning their secrets, in order to persuade them to relinguish the mining rights, or to break their defenses and overwhelm them militarily . But a strong emotional attachment to one of the Na'vi begins to change his desire from one of conquest to that of love and respect for their culture. The climax of the story comes as the military machine of the humans collides...