Ball Lightning - Cixin Liu & Joel Martinsen

Ball Lightning

ByCixin Liu & Joel Martinsen

  • Release Date: 2018-08-14
  • Genre: High Tech Sci-Fi
Score: 4
4
From 139 Ratings

Description

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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Reviews

  • Uncanny and eerie tale of how humans can harness forces of nature

    5
    By Austin Bay
    A completely imaginative take on a metaphysical world and the ways it can be weaponized beyond our wildest dreams.
  • Ball Lightning > Three-Body

    5
    By sixteeFour
    if you are frustrated with the universe-ending threats and scale posed in Liu’s work like Three Body, i highly recommend this much smaller and more personal story. for my money, this is the best Cixin Liu novel.
  • Addictive from the first chapter

    5
    By Apoverton1080
    I enjoyed reading this book so much. It’s an excellent work of science fiction. The author pays a lot of attention to adding believable details and touches a lot on the societal implications of technology advances. I’ve read the Three-Body Series by the same author and enjoyed this book as much as those books.

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