Ball Lightning

A new science fictionadventure from the New York Timesbestselling and award-winning author of the Three-Body Trilogy.WhenChens parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, hedevotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon.His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weaponslab, and an old Soviet science station.Themore he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just thetip of an entirely new frontier. While Chens quest for answers gives purpose tohis lonely life, it also pits him against soldiers and scientists with motivesof their own: a beautiful army major with an obsession with dangerous weaponry,and a physicist who has no place for ethical considerations in hissingle-minded pursuit of knowledge.Ball Lightning, by award-winning Chinesescience fiction author Cixin Liu, is a fast-paced story of what happens whenthe beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against the drive to harness newdiscoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences.