The Lunar Chronicles move to graphic novels
‘Wonderfully visual format’ will take readers to next stage, says author
Marissa Meyer is bringing her intergalactic characters into a new dimension.
Meyer is the author of The Lunar Chronicles, the series of young adult sci-fi novels that sits atop the bestseller lists, in stellar company with The Mazerunner, Divergent and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
And now the Washington statebased author is entering the graphic-novel market.
Meyer and publisher McMillan have set the course: She’s writing a two-book graphic-novel duet. Wires and Nerve, with illustrations by Douglas Holgate, is set to debut next January.
Set after the events of the Lunar Chronicles, it will feature many of the same characters, including Iko the android; Cinder, the teen cyborg with a wicked stepmother; Scarlet, the space pilot who works with street-fighter Wolf; Cress, the hacker who is imprisoned like some satellite Rapunzel; and Winter, the princess who loves a commoner.
“Writing graphic novels has been on my ultimate writing dream list since I was a teenager,” says Meyer, 31, “and I’m so thrilled to be able to make the dream a reality, while also expanding on the story of The Lunar Chronicles.”
Meyer says her window into comics, as with so many fans, was mostly manga (Japanese comics).
“I used to spend hours hunting down English translations online for some of my favourites — or when a translation couldn’t be found, analyzing every detail of the artwork to try to piece the story together in my own imagination,” Meyer says “To this day, comics and graphic novels are one of my favourite forms of storytelling, and I can’t wait for readers to experience the world of the Lunar Chronicles in such a wonderfully visual format.”
The Lunar Chronicles shortstory collection, Stars Above, was released on Tuesday.