'Wildly imaginative.'-Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogyĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. While you might have to slog through some sections, Liu’s imagination and the technologies he invents were enough for me to keep turning pages and lovers of hard sci-fi will find it enjoyable.

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. Overall, BALL LIGHTNING is a flawed but ultimately intriguing novel. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. Somewhere deep in Siberia, a strungout Russian scientist has a little wisdom to offer. Cixin Liu’s Ball Lightning is, like much good sci-fi, a discussion of technology’s implications in war and the broader culture, as well as a reflection on the culture of science and its effects in our everyday lives.

His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. 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.

A new standalone military SF adventure from the bestselling and awa. 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. Read 997 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.

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