Ball lightning

Author: Liu Cixin
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: On a strange rainy night, a ball of lightning a teenager's vision. Its howl was deep yet sharp, like a ghost playing the xun flute on an ancient, desolate plain. When the ghost finished its song, the ball of lightning instantly turned the teenager's parents to ash, yet the stool they were sitting on remained miraculously cool.
As a leading figure in Chinese science fiction, Liu Cixin fuses thick realistic style, grandiose imagination, and profound rational patriotism in this book. It is a powerful and moving work that leaves readers unable to put it down, compelled to continue.