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.
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.
Wildly imaginative.--Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy
Tor books by Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem Series
#1 The Three-Body Problem
#2 The Dark Forest
#3 Death's End
