Ball Lightning

by Cixin Liu

Joel Martinsen (Translator)

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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.
  • ISBN10 0765394073
  • ISBN13 9780765394071
  • Publish Date 14 August 2018 (first published 21 November 2017)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 19 October 2021
  • Imprint Tor Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 384
  • Language English