Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu
Cixin Liu is the author of your next favorite sci-fi novel WIRED On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen s parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning. Striving to make sense of this bizarre tragedy, he dedicates his life to a single goal: to unlock the secrets of this enigmatic natural phenomenon. His pursuit of ball lightning will take him far from home, across mountain peaks chasing storms and deep into highly classified subterranean laboratories as he slowly unveils a new frontier in particle physics. Chen s obsession gives purpose to his lonely life, but it can t insulate him from the real world s interest in his discoveries. He will be pitted against scientists, soldiers, and governments with motives of their own: a physicist who has no place for moral judgment in his pursuit of knowledge; a beautiful army major obsessed with new ways to wage war; a desperate nation facing certain military defeat. Conjuring awe-inspiring new worlds of cosmology and philosophy from meticulous scientific speculation, Ball Lightning has all the scope and imagination that so enthralled readers of Cixin Liu s award-winning Three-Body trilogy. Praise for Cixin Liu: Your next favorite sci-fi novel Wired Immense Barack Obama Unique George R.R. Martin SF in the grand style Guardian Mind-altering and immersive Daily Mail A milestone in Chinese science-fiction New York Times China s answer to Arthur C. Clarke New Yorker Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel
About the Author
Cixin Liu is China's #1 SF writer and author of The Three-Body Problem – the first ever translated novel to win a Hugo Award. Prior to becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan. Joel Martinsen is the translator of The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu and (with Alice Xin Liu) of The Problem With Me, a collection of essays by Han Han. His translations of short fiction have appeared in Pathlight, Chutzpah, and Words Without Borders. He lives in Beijing.
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