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Ball Lightning
- Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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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.
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- Jed1314
- 28-04-20
Author's afterword contains spoilers
Great book and reading, I've gone on to listen to more of the series but afterword spoils part of 3 body problem. Better to return to this section after you've read the rest of the series.
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- Kelvin Lagrave
- 13-08-20
An interesting story
This is my first time reading a Cixin Liu book, and I picked this up hearing it was a prequel to his popular Three Body series. I was pleasantly surprised, Ball Lightning is a slow but engaging story that explores interesting science fiction concepts. Everything feels very real and grounded in reality, as if some of the things mentioned in this book could be real.
Bruno Roubicek's narration takes a little getting used to, but I do think he did an excellent job. I highly recommend
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- Gabriel Lopes
- 18-09-19
Outstanding!
Wow, just wow...
At first i was sceptical about this book because i heard to ignore it as it was supposedly unrelated to the rest of his work (namely three body experience) of which i heard amazing things about. After a quick search i figured out with is a prequel and as wanting to catch the beginning, i bought it.
Oh boy...
This book really catches your attention and tells a gripping tale about the unflinching obsession and the struggles of scientific discovery vs the moral and existential (for the lack of a better word) implications.
I highly recommend this.
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- Alice Booth
- 06-07-21
Not a prequel and not my taste at all
I really liked the beginning of this book, but the military fetishism of the second half really put me off. I loved the three body trilogy, but this is not in the same league at all. Also, Liu's lingering sexism is even more pronounced here, but without the quality story to distract from it. Very disappointed.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-05-21
very one dimensional characters
it was a struggle to finish this the characters are so one dimensional, they jump from emotion to emotion incredibly fast, the plot and concept was interesting and made me stuck it out to see what happened, the best part is the epilogue where the author gives a short history lesson on Science fiction in china
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- 12-09-20
interesting throughout, but vaguely dissatisfying.
they want words for the review, so here are some words.the title says enough, but is not enough.
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- OH
- 03-01-24
Very believable and interesting story
Very believable and interesting story. Interesting characters. Good narrator. Preparation for the superb 3 body problem books, or a nice dessert. Reccommended.
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- Bilsbrbj01
- 01-03-21
Another Excellent Cixin Book
Loved it,
Stand along from the three body problem but in the same fictional world.
As always Cixin starts in the real and slowly developes into the mind boggling bizarre in a beautiful speculation of scientific advance
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- Justin Murphy
- 11-02-21
Excellent hard sci-fi
I discovered Cixin Liu with the Wandering Earth, then continued with the Three Body Problem series and now with Ball Lightning. He is very much a “hard sci-fi” author: fictional phenomena based on a kernel of real science. In the Dark Forest it was relativity; in Ball Lightning it is quantum mechanics. I would compare him with Stephen Baxter.
At first I didn’t like the narrator, but after so many books I have grown to like him and I think his steady style of talking matches the nature of the books.
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- Tatiana / @TCLinrow
- 15-12-20
A weird and wonderful sci-fi
I really enjoyed this story for its ability to write about incredibly complex scientific theories and possibilities in a way that could be understood easily.
The storyline itself was engaging and captivating, and with a little bit more character development it could easily have been a 5 star read for me.
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