Ball Lightning

Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novelWIRED
On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chens parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning. Striving to make sense of this bizarre tragedy, he dedicates his life to a single goal: to unlock the secrets of this enigmatic natural phenomenon. His pursuit of ball lightning will take him far from home, across mountain peaks chasing storms and deep into highly classified subterranean laboratories as he slowly unveils a new frontier in particle physics.

Chens obsession gives purpose to his lonely life, but it cant insulate him from the real worlds interest in his discoveries. He will be pitted against scientists, soldiers and governments with motives of their own: a physicist who has no place for moral judgement in his pursuit of knowledge; a beautiful army major obsessed with new ways to wage war; a desperate nation facing certain military defeat.

Conjuring awe-inspiring new worlds of cosmology and philosophy from meticulous scientific speculation, Ball Lightning has all the scope and imagination that so enthralled readers of Cixin Lius award-winning Three-Body trilogy.
Praise for Cixin Liu:
Your next favourite sci-fi novelWired

ImmenseBarack Obama

UniqueGeorge R.R. Martin

SF in the grand styleGuardian

Mind-altering and immersiveDaily Mail

A milestone in Chinese science-fictionNew York Times

Chinas answer to Arthur C. ClarkeNew Yorker

Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel