Lu says her plot was inspired by real-life video games, such as League of Legends. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Set in the not-too-distant future, everyone wears virtual reality eyeglasses which connect their brains to a master computer in order to play a game called Warcross.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Warcross Author Marie Lu Lu created her own real and virtual world for her latest novel, Warcross, a science fiction thriller. It's just really, really cool and beautiful." "So they're buildings that don't make sense. "It's a game where you walk around structures figuring out puzzles based on Escher-like geometry," Lu explains. ( You can see photos here.) A section of the walls and floor is painted with the geometric patterns featured in one of Lu's favorite video games, Monument Valley. The apartment she shares with her video game-artist husband is dotted with vintage NASA posters, neat stacks of comic books, and a carefully curated collection of stuffed animals. Her dystopian trilogy "Legend" and her fantasy trilogy "The Young Elites" both became best-sellers. "We wanted it to be playful," she says.īut writer's block doesn't seem to be much of a problem for the 33-year-old science fiction and fantasy novelist. In her modernist loft in LA's arts district, author Marie Lu has a modular workspace and lounge area whimsically dubbed The Writer's Block. How have they changed? How do their different lifestyles clash with each other? Can they find their way back to each other? These were all questions I knew I had but didn’t know that I wanted to explore until recently.Marie Lu says it's fitting - given her tendency to write dark, dystopian novels - that she was born in the year 1984. It’s been 10 years since the end of Champion. And I also wanted to explore my own thoughts for how they get back together, and how they find each other again, and whether they can reconnect. I wanted to see how they had changed and grown. “Good luck, don’t drink too much!” That was very much how I felt at the end of Champion. Not that I have a college-aged kid, but it felt like when you send your kids off to college. I didn’t actually know if they were going to reconnect again.
That was how I left them in my head as well.
They had met each other again, but I left it to the reader, what happened to them in the future.
It was the same - a little intimidating! I left them in an open spot at the end of Champion. What was it like returning to those characters’ head-spaces, especially given the reader interest in their dynamic?
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