![]() ![]() In this novel though, the characters are less “discomforting” and the reader can empathize with them more easily, though the topic, scientific research into the strange phenomenon of ball lightning, is still the main feature of the novel.īall Lightning, set in China, starts off with the death of the parents of the main character, “Dr. The characters’ dialogues are often formal, lengthy and declamatory – through no fault of the translators I’m sure. ![]() Liu writes SF in Mandarin, with an emphasis on the Science part of SF rather than the Fiction part, and his novels have a strange (at least strange to a Western reader) manner of characterization. I reviewed the third in this series, Death’s End, and this proved to be really difficult. ![]() LIU Cixin, or Cixin Liu as he is known in English, is the author of the famous Science Fiction trilogy The Three Body Problem, originally known as Remembrance of Things Past, which starts with the novel of the same name as the series. Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu (Translated by Joel Martinsen, publisher: Tor Books First Edition Aughardcover, 384 pages) ![]()
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