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Ball lightning cixin6/22/2023 ![]() Chen-who has dedicated his whole life to understanding the phenomenon of ball lightning, having lost his parents to an occurrence of it as a child. The book is written, except in its latter half, in the first-person, through the eyes of Dr. If I may use The Three-Body Problem as the reference, Ball Lightning can be considered as a story co-existing in or parallel to that timeline, with the plot opening in modern China, post-Cultural Revolution. Still, the book manages to be an exciting standalone, swinging its narrative between the borderlines of paranormal and hard science fiction. In a way, it’s a reserved prequel to Liu’s Remembrance of the Earth’s Past trilogy, which uses the mystery of its titular phenomenon as a staging post for the concepts to follow. ![]() Ball Lightning, originally published in 2005 but translated into English by Joel Martinson this year, can be described as a procedural science fiction one that takes readers through the excitements and frustrations of research, focusing on theoretical modelling and experimental physics, and the scientific enquiry that bridges them both. ![]()
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