'A meditation on technology, progress, morality, extinction, and knowledge that doubles as a cosmos-in-the-balance thriller. 'A must-read in any language.” -Booklist, on The Three Body Problem “Remarkable, revelatory and not to be missed.” -Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on The Three Body Problem “Extraordinary.” -The New Yorker, on The Three Body Problem a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, politics and history, conspiracy theory and cosmology.” -George R. 'Wildly imaginative, really interesting.' -President Barack Obama on the Three-Body Problem trilogy 'Wildly imaginative.'-Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogyĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. 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. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. 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.

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.

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