'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED. On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's 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. Chen's obsession gives purpose to his lonely life, but it can't insulate him from the real world's 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 Liu's award-winning Three-Body trilogy.
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.
