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Ball Lightning Paperback - 2019

by Cixin Liu; Joel Martinsen (Translator)

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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Three-Body Trilogy, Cixin Liu's Ball Lightning is the 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. 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 own: 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. "Wildly imaginative."--Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy Tor books by Cixin Liu The Three-Body Problem Series
#1 The Three-Body Problem
#2 The Dark Forest
#3 Death's End

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  • Title Ball Lightning
  • Author Cixin Liu; Joel Martinsen (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tor Books
  • Date 2019-06-25
  • ISBN 9780765394095 / 076539409X
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Physicists
  • Dewey Decimal Code 895.135

About the author

CIXIN LIU is a prolific and popular science fiction writer in the People's Republic of China. Liu is a winner of the Hugo Award and a multiple winner of the Galaxy Award (the Chinese Hugo) and the Xing Yun Award (the Chinese Nebula). He lives with his family in Yangquan, Shanxi. Liu is the author of The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy (The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End), and Ball Lightning. JOEL MARTINSEN (translator) is research director for a media intelligence company. His translations have appeared in Words Without Borders and Pathlight. He lives in Edinburgh.

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