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. Son todos ellos quienes han conseguido convertir a un perfecto desconocido, llegado del Oriente más misterioso y hermético, en una de las grandes sensaciones literarias de los últimos años.Īntes 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.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. Su enorme éxito se repite ahora en todos los mercados internacionales, gracias a los fans del género, pero también, y sobre todo, a los millones de lectores interesados en la actualidad geopolítica y en el pasado y futuro de China. Liu ha sido galardonado ocho veces con el Galaxy Award (el equivalente en su país al premio Hugo) y el Nebula chino, antes de convertir su «Trilogía de los Tres Cuerpos» en una obra capaz de vender un millón de ejemplares solo en China, despertar el interés unánime de todo Occidente, obtener el premio Hugo 2015 a la mejor novela y ganarse prescriptores de la talla de Barack Obama y Mark Zuckerberg. 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.Ĭonjuring 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.Ĭixin Liu es el autor de ciencia ficción más prolífico y popular de la República Popular China. 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.Ĭhen's obsession gives purpose to his lonely life, but it can't insulate him from the real world's interest in his discoveries. 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. On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen's parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning.

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