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球状闪电

by 刘慈欣

4 · 424 pages · First published 2009

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. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. While Chen's quest for answers gives purpose to his lonely life, it also pits him against soldiers and scientists with 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.

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ACTES SUD, Macmillan Audio, Mao tou ying chu ban she, Mondadori, Dom Wydawniczy Rebis, Tor Books
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ita, pol, fre, eng, chi, spa