• Ball Lightning

  • By: Cixin Liu
  • Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
  • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (141 ratings)

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Ball Lightning

By: Cixin Liu
Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
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Publisher's summary

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

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Continues to be one of my favourite authors!

The book starts off absolutely brilliantly and you are hooked in immediately. It is a different feel and pace to Three Body Problem series, but I enjoyed the infiltration of science (however unnatural) into the near future. Narrator was brilliant.

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Brilliant!

Great book, newest addition to my favorites. It made me think in non-linear terms.

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Emensely Enjoyable

The verisimilitude of this world made listening a vivid experience. The narration was talented and colourful; greater emphasis on chapter breaks would have made my binge-listening more . . . comfortable?

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Loved it

What a fabulous story !!!
This is one of those paradigms that grips you by tying into your own world and then bending it slightly
Loved the book from start to finish, thanks Author, it was a fabulous experience …

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good but not as great as "3 body problem" series

perhaps it's the difference style of writing and the high expectations listening to the book after finishing the trilogy, still interesting but not as immersive and definitely doesn't need to be considered as a prequel

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Not hard sci fi

Quite different from 3BP, a lot softer and more fanciful
Story was a bit all over the place for my taste

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Alright

The book was alright, but I read three body first and found that one much more interesting. The theoretical ideas in this book are interesting but the way the characters learns of the ideas didn't seem realistic enough to me. The odd physics genius stereotype just always had an explanation for every weird, unnatural phenomena they experienced.
also, the storytelling wasn't as compelling to me as three body problem.

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