Ball Lightning Sneak Peek
By Liu Cixin
2018
First Published
3.59
Average Rating
48
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A new science fiction adventure from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Three-Body Trilogy.When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station.The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. While Chen’s quest for answers gives purpose to his lonely life, it also pits him against soldiers and scientists with motives of their a beautiful army major with an obsession with dangerous weaponry, and a physicist who has no place for ethical considerations in his single-minded pursuit of knowledge.Ball Lightning, by award-winning Chinese science fiction author Cixin Liu, is a fast-paced story of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against the drive to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences."Wildly imaginative." —Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogyAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Avg Rating
3.59
Number of Ratings
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Author
Liu Cixin
Author · 37 books
Science Fiction fan and writer. Liu Cixin also appears as Cixin Liu
