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 trilogyTor books by Cixin LiuThe Remembrance of Earth's Past#1 The Three-Body Problem#2 The Dark Forest#3 Death's End
Es el autor de ciencia ficción más prolífico y popular de la República Popular China. Ha sido galardonado ocho veces con el Galaxy Award y el Nebula chino. Su «Trilogía de los Tres Cuerpos» vendió un millón de ejemplares solo en Chin y despertó el interés unánime de todo Occidente. Su enorme éxito se repite ahora en todos los mercados internacionales. Es una de las grandes sensaciones literarias de los últimos años. Antes de ser escritor, Liu trabajó como ingeniero de una central eléctrica de la ciudad china de Yangquán, en la provincia de Shanxi, ahora temporalmente cerrada debido a la contaminación atmosférica.
