![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Marie Lu says it's fitting - given her tendency to write dark, dystopian novels - that she was born in the year 1984. ![]()
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