Ball lightning
By: Cixin Liu ; translated by Joel Martinsen
Contributors: Martinsen, Joel, translator
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Tor; Tor Books
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Translated from: chi
Translation of: 球状闪电
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780765394071
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Fiction; Physicists; Military weapons; Ball lightning
Work titles: Qiu zhuang shan dian
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published in 2005 by Sichaun Science & Technology Press in Chengdu, China.

Translation from the Chinese of: Qiu zhuang shan dian.

"The first three chapters of this translation appeared in the online magazine Words Without Borders in a slightly different form in 2009."

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

Translated from the Chinese.