Veronica Roth is the #1
New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent Series and the Carve the Mark series. Her short stories and essays have appeared in the anthologies
Summer Days and Summer Nights,
Shards and Ashes, and
Three Sides of a Heart. The Divergent Series was developed into three major motion pictures.
Roth grew up outside of Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University. She now lives in Chicago proper with her husband and dog and writes full-time.
Her new book is
The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future.
At Tor.com Roth tagged "five stories that explore a piece of futuristic technology—for better, worse, or a mix of both," including:
Warcross by Marie Lu
Warcross is a worldwide sensation, an alternate reality capture-the-flag game with famous players, specialized positions, and international championships—a little like an exaggerated version of pro Overwatch. I pitch this book to friends and family as being FUN AS HELL and I stand by that assessment. It’s an immensely satisfying Cinderella-ish story of Emika Chen, a bounty hunter just barely scraping by, who pulls a stunt that 
gets her recruited to play for one of the world’s best Warcross teams. And along the way, she discovers a much darker side of the game (and, of course, society itself). As someone who has played Beat Saber on an Oculus more than once, this technology felt close enough to grasp, but dreamlike enough to long for—we’re a ways off from a completely immersive, worldwide augmented reality system that could bring us a game like this. And this isn’t a story that preaches at you to stop playing games and go outside—it’s written with an obvious love of gaming as a given, by someone who clearly understands the appeal and has no judgment for those of us who have spent days on end lost in Hyrule. (I’m on my fourth playthrough of Breath of the Wild, so I take this very personally.) I want to play Warcross the same way I want to play Quidditch. My love is pure.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
Three Sides of a Heart. The Divergent Series was developed into three major motion pictures.
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