'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. 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.
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. Chen's obsession gives purpose to his lonely
life, but it can't insulate him from the real world's interest in
his discoveries. 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. Conjuring 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: 'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' Wired 'Immense'
Barack Obama 'Unique' George R.R. Martin 'SF in the grand style'
Guardian 'Mind-altering and immersive' Daily Mail 'A milestone in
Chinese science-fiction' New York Times 'China's answer to Arthur
C. Clarke' New Yorker Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best
Novel
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