The Lunar Chronicles is a series of four young adult science fiction novels, a novella, and a short story collection written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Feiwel & Friends.
Each book entails a science fictional twist on a classic fairy tale, including "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Rapunzel", and "Snow White".
Set in a futuristic world inhabited by various species and creatures, tensions are rising between Earth and its former colony Luna, while both attempt to manage an ongoing pandemic.
[1] Linh Cinder (based on "Cinderella"),[1] a cyborg living with her stepmother and her two stepsisters in New Beijing of the Eastern Commonwealth, works as a mechanic in a booth at the marketplace where she meets Crown Prince Kai, who requests that she fix his personal former tutor android.
On Scarlet's journey to find her grandmother, she works hesitantly with a street fighter named Wolf, who is a genetically altered Lunar warrior.
As the search continues, Scarlet meets Cinder and becomes an ally in her plan to stop the tyranny of Queen Levana and her thaumaturge, Sybil Mira.
Living alone on a satellite and harboring an enormous crush on Carswell Thorne, she secretly works to sabotage the wicked Lunar queen, and eventually, Cress teams up with Cinder and becomes entangled in her plot to save Earth.
As complications arise and the crew is separated, they must do everything they can to prevent a royal wedding putting Earth into Queen Levana's hands and the commonwealth's leaving Prince Kai's.
Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.
It includes four previously individually released novellas and five original stories:[6] Wires and Nerves is a graphic novel series written by Meyer also based in the world of The Lunar Chronicles.
The idea for the series started with an entry Meyer wrote for an online Sailor Moon fan fiction writing contest in 2008.
[8][9] It was the first time Meyer ever wrote science fiction, and it inspired her to give sci-fi twists to classic fairy tales.
[9] Meyer chose to adapt Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Snow White as she felt she had the best ideas for them.
[9][10] Meyer developed the initial drafts of Cinder, Scarlet and Cress for the November 2008 National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).