Ball Lightning

A marvellous mélange of awe-inspiring scientific concepts, clever plotting and quirky yet plausible characters * TLS *A striking, strange and sometimes quite chewy standalone novel about the uneasy alliance between cutting-edge scientific research and the agencies that fund it * SFX *A fascinating piece of speculative fiction… This is unsettling and thoughtful writing… Ball Lightning does what all the best science fiction does - it makes the reader look at the world around them anew, and makes them think about the possibilities of the future’ * Big Issue *As elusive as a Venusian scout ship and as deadly as a nest of vipers… Through these characters we learn an awful lot about ball lightning and it shows the author’s deep knowledge of physics, cosmology, meteorology and the politics and morality of scientific research’ * Starburst magazine *Cixin Liu is one of the most significant authors working in the genre today… Expect inspirational cosmology and philosophy with meticulous scientific speculation; Ball Lightning is likely to enthral you’ * Starburst Magazine *

Cixin Liu is China’s #1 SF writer and author of The Three-Body Problem – the first ever translated novel to win a Hugo Award. Prior to becoming a writer, Liu worked as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan.