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Ball Lightning

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Ball Lightning

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Author: Cixin Liu
Publisher: Tor, 2018
Head of Zeus, 2018
Original Chinese publication, 2004
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Book Type: Novel
Genre: Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags: Hard SF
Military SF
Near-Future
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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 in particle physics. Although Chen's quest provides a purpose for his lonely life, his reasons for chasing his elusive quarry come into conflict with soldiers and scientists who have 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.


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