“I never saw her again. But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She was ice personified. There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.”

American young adult science fiction and fantasy author

Marie Lu is an American young adult science fiction and fantasy author. She is best known for the Legend series and for several other novels aimed at younger readers. Her work includes the dystopian, militarized world of Legend, along with the Young Elites series, the Warcross series, and Batman: Nightwalker in the DC Icons series. Her writing is associated with speculative fiction, especially stories set in imagined futures and focused on conflict, power, and survival.