![]() 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. ![]() The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of mysterious natural phenomena. A new standalone military SF adventure from the bestselling and award-winning author of The Three-Body Problem. In the Dark Forest it was relativity in Ball Lightning it is quantum mechanics. Liu Cixin, Joel Martinsen (Translation) 3.77. He is very much a hard sci-fi author: fictional phenomena based on a kernel of real science. ![]() His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. I discovered Cixin Liu with the Wandering Earth, then continued with the Three Body Problem series and now with Ball Lightning. ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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