As a result, Chen makes it his life’s work to understand the real-life phenomenon, bringing him into contact with Lin Yun, a beautiful Chinese army major working on militarising the energy involved in these unexplained fireballs. Liu’s previous work brilliantly blended big scientific ideas with personal stories and the same goes for Ball Lightning, which focuses on Chen, whose parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning on his fourteenth birthday.
Martin.īall Lightning is a standalone that was written before Liu’s famous trilogy, but it has been translated into English for the first time here, and it’s a fascinating piece of speculative fiction. Liu is best known for his Three-Body Problem trilogy, a series of first contact sci-fi novels that won awards all over the place and praise from the likes of Barack Obama and George R.R. Science fiction is, of course, as wide and deep as any other genre in fiction, and this week we’re looking at two books from opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of style and approach.įirst up is Ball Lightning (Head of Zeus, £18.99) by Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen.
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