{"product_id":"9781800248953-retail-ball-lightning","title":"Ball Lightning","description":"'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel'  WIRED   On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes,  Chen's parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning.  Striving to make sense of this bizarre tragedy,  he dedicates his life to a single goal: to unlock the secrets of this enigmatic natural phenomenon . His pursuit of ball lightning will take him far from home, across mountain peaks chasing storms and deep into highly classified subterranean laboratories as he slowly unveils a new frontier in particle physics. Chen's obsession gives purpose to his lonely life, but it can't insulate him from the real world's interest in his discoveries. He will be pitted against scientists, soldiers and governments with motives of their own:  a physicist who has no place for moral judgement  in his pursuit of knowledge; a beautiful  army major obsessed with new ways to wage war ; a desperate nation facing certain military defeat. Conjuring  awe-inspiring new worlds  of cosmology and philosophy from meticulous scientific speculation,  Ball Lightning  has  all the scope and imagination  that so enthralled readers  of Cixin Liu's award-winning Three-Body trilogy . Praise for  Cixin Liu :  'Your next favourite sci-fi novel'  Wired 'Immense'  Barack Obama 'Unique'  George R.R. Martin 'SF in the grand style'  Guardian 'Mind-altering and immersive'  Daily Mail 'A milestone in Chinese science-fiction'  New York Times 'China's answer to Arthur C. Clarke'  New Yorker Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel ","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48991570690267,"sku":"9781800248953-RETAIL","price":19.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e4bbb589-ea13-4a8d-98c9-558b672b5fe0.jpg?v=1784507582","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781800248953-retail-ball-lightning","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}