Striving to make sense of this bizarre tragedy, he dedicates his life to a single goal: to unlock the secrets of this enigmatic natural phenomenon. 'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning. Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best NovelīY (AUTHOR) Liu, Cixin, TRANSLATED BY Martinsen, Joel 'A milestone in Chinese science-fiction' New York Times He will be pitted against scientists, soldiers and governments with motives of their own: a physicist who has no place for moral judgement in his pursuit of knowledge a beautiful army major obsessed with new ways to wage war a desperate nation facing certain military defeat.Ĭonjuring awe-inspiring new worlds of cosmology and philosophy from meticulous scientific speculation, Ball Lightning has all the scope and imagination that so enthralled readers of Cixin Liu's award-winning Three-Body trilogy.Praise for Cixin Liu: His pursuit of ball lightning will take him far from home, across mountain peaks chasing storms and deep into highly classified subterranean laboratories as he slowly unveils a new frontier in particle physics.Ĭhen's obsession gives purpose to his lonely life, but it can't insulate him from the real world's interest in his discoveries. On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning.

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