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Ball Lightning

Written by: Cixin Liu
Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
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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. The more he learns, the more he comes to realise 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 this elusive quarry come into conflict with soldiers and scientists who have motives of their own.

©2005 Liu Cixin (P)2018 W.F. Howes Ltd Fantasy Military

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Liu did it again

Great characters and the drama revolving weapons and science. The author as usual has made sure to take mundane thing which we leave out to hard science fiction story which will make you listen to in one straight week or 2 days in my case.
Great Story
Great Characters
Awesome crossover - Ding Yi is the best.

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Starts with lightning, then it blows your mind

I only bought this because i really loved the complex, aeons-spanning tale of the Three Body Problem. I expected this to be tamer, simpler because y'know, it's just lightning. But no, Cixin Liu cannot just write a straight simple story. This isn't a trilogy, but that didn't stop the author from aravind a marvellous rollercoaster ride. And the tiny three-body prequelesque easter egg was the perfect dessert. Loved this book.

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Struggle! Not recommended!

Struggled to finish. I couldn't finish the book. It's really boring. It's implausible that where people have struggled for decades, one man comes and solves the problem in 5 mins.

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