num_pages: 384
description: A new standalone military SF adventure from the bestselling and award-winning author of The Three-Body Problem.When Chens parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning he devotes his life to cracking the secret of mysterious natural phenomena. 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 in particle physics. Although Chens quest provides a purpose for his lonely life his reasons for chasing his elusive quarry come into conflict with soldiers and scientists who have 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 a push to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences.The original Chinese version was published in 2004. In 2018 the English version translated by Joel Martinsen was published in the US by Tor Books.
language: English
title: Ball Lightning
publisher: Tor Books