No no no.A woman visits an exhibition in Shanghai, east China, Feb.

So you can refer to it as PAL: 'Since the dawn of PAL research, only a scant few have taken the notion of PAL phenomena seriously- most of whom would have dismissed it as pseudoscience, had they not witnessed a PAL event first-hand.' (again made up, to make the point.) NOTE: there is one amazing unforeseen benefit in my life from encountering the goofy term BALL LIGHTNIG! To this day, if my wife is feeling down or upset in any way, all I have to do is sprinkle in a few references to ball lightning and she can't resist laughing herself into a better mood. How hard would it have been to come up with something like Persistent Anomalous Lightning.

It's also the dorkiest title of a serious sci-fi book I've ever encountered. It's hard to take the story seriously when every few sentences you hear 'the BALL LIGHTNING phenomenon was not taken seriously outside the community of BALL LIGHTNING enthusiasts and the first BALL LIGHTNING researcher.' (not a real quote - it's just to illustrate.). It's just awkward to use 'ball' as an adjective to describe anything. OK, It might be a cool term in Chinese, but 'ball lightning' in English. It might seem like an average length audio book, but that's only because of the hours taken up by the words 'ball lightning,' which appear hundreds of not thousands of times. This program is read by Feodor Chin, voice of Zenyatta in Overwatch. Although Chen’s quest provides a purpose for his lonely life, his reasons for chasing his elusive quarry come into conflict with soldiers and scientists who have motives of their own: a beautiful army major with an obsession with dangerous weaponry, and a physicist who has no place for ethical considerations in his single-minded pursuit of knowledge.īall Lightning, by award-winning Chinese science fiction author Cixin Liu, is a fast-paced audiobook about what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against a push to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier in particle physics. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of the mysterious natural phenomenon.

'Wildly imaginative.' (Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy)Ī new standalone military science fiction adventure from the New York Times best-selling and award-winning author of the Three-Body Trilogy.

Ball lightning by cixin liu