Ball Lightning Cixin Liu
Ball lightning cixin liu. 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. Once ball lightning gets rolling this sci fi mind bender shines the novel is chinese writer cixin liu s first in english since his remembrance of earth s past trilogy. Ball lightning is liu s fourth book in english the first three having comprised a hard science fiction trilogy about alien contact and human political struggles among themselves and with the aliens. From the new york times bestselling author of the three body trilogy cixin liu s ball lightning is the story of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against the drive to.
Ball lightning by award winning chinese science fiction author cixin liu is a fast paced audiobook about what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against a push to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences. From the new york times bestselling author of the three body trilogy cixin liu s ball lightning is the 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. Ball lightening by liu cixin is a fascinating and fairly original book from the author of the three body problem which have yet to read as of this writing. The book follows a physicist who as a child saw his parents incinerated one stormy night by a ball lightening event.
The original chinese version was published in 2004. One of the foundational novels by beloved science fiction author cixin liu ball lightning is a stunning tale of physics ethics and one man s journey for answers that may come at too high a cost. In 2015 liu cixin became a worldwide sensation with the publication of the three body problem and its sequels the dark forest and death s end. The original chinese version was published in 2004.