Ball Lightning Liu Cixin Review

This in part explains the narrowness of focus as liu follows certain conventions that the reader may not be aware of.

Ball lightning liu cixin review. When chen s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning he devotes his life to cracking the. In the afterword to ball lightning cixin liu locates his novel within the genre of the invention story p. When chen s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning he devotes his life to cracking the. Multiple award winning chinese science fiction author cixin liu is having a moment in the anglophone world.

The story plays on advanced physics. Cixin liu s ball lightning opens with a young chen witnessing his parents being incinerated by an unexplained sphere of energy and then follows chen as he delves ever deeper into the mysteries surrounding this inscrutable atmospheric 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. The second book in that series the dark forest remains in my personal top three sci fi novels of all time and will most likely stay there for a very long time.

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. I finished the book ball lightening by cixin liu which is easily the best sf book that i ve read in years even better than the three body series. 3 5 5 stars cixin liu greatly examined the effects of obsession science and weaponry in ball lightning. And that series.

A new science fiction venture from the award winning chinese author of the brilliant alien contact trilogy concluded with death s end 2016 whose readers hopefully learned to expect the unexpected. I m a fan of cixin liu s remembrance of earth past trilogy. Ball lightning is liu s fourth book in english the first three having comprised a hard science fiction. Plus the fact that ball lightning is translated by joel.

Ball lightning the newest book to appear in english from the bestselling chinese science fiction author cixin liu was actually written over a decade ago at about the same time as this writer s famous three body trilogy it appears now in part thanks to the success of that trilogy and dovetails nicely with the other books in terms of both tenor and some key background plot elements. 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. Because of the 2014 english translation of his novel the three body problem chinese science fiction has been in high demand in the american market.