Science, physics, and the theme of obsession with something is the core of the story in the novel.
After this event, Chen immediately decided to devote his entire life to unravel the secret behind the occurrence of the ball lightning. “The key to a wonderful life is a fascination with something.”īut then what happened when that fascination turns into an obsession? The story starts when Chen’s parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning right before his eyes.
Plus, the fact that Ball Lightning is translated by Joel Martinsen, the same translator of The Dark Forest, made me eager to read this one. The second book in that series, The Dark Forest remains in my personal top three sci-fi novels of all time and will most likely stay there for a very long time.
I’m a fan of Cixin Liu’s Remembrance of Earth Past trilogy. "Wildly imaginative.In Ball Lightning, Cixin Liu greatly examined the effects of obsession with science and weaponry. 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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