Cixin Liu, author of the bestselling and award-winning sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem, returns with a new science-fiction adventure: Ball Lightning, translated by Joel Martinsen. Download a free digital preview of the first four chapters from your favorite retailer now. Ball Lightning will officially hit shelves on August 14th.
About 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. 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.
Ball Lightning, by award-winning Chinese science fiction author Cixin Liu, is a fast-paced 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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I’d love to read the first four chapters but it’s not available in Australia.
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