'Fifty thousand people will pack into the Staples Center to watch the world championships, and that very much influenced the creation of Warcross,' she says. 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. In this explosive sequel to the New York Times bestselling Warcross, Marie Lu delivers an addictive finale that will hold you captive till the very last page.Marie Lu says it's fitting - given her tendency to write dark, dystopian novels - that she was born in the year 1984. But Emika soon learns that Zero isn’t all that he seems-and his protection comes at a price.Ĭaught in a web of betrayal, with the future of free will at risk, just how far will Emika go to take down the man she loves? Someone’s put a bounty on Emika’s head, and her sole chance for survival lies with Zero and the Blackcoats, his ruthless crew. Now that she knows the truth behind Hideo’s new NeuroLink algorithm, she can no longer trust the one person she’s always looked up to, who she once thought was on her side.ĭetermined to put a stop to Hideo’s grim plans, Emika and the Phoenix Riders band together, only to find a new threat lurking on the neon-lit streets of Tokyo.

Return to the immersive, action-packed world of Warcross in this thrilling sequel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie LuĮmika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive.

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