Ball Lightning (novel)

Ball Lightning
2005 Chinese edition
AuthorLiu Cixin
Original title球状闪电
Qiúzhuàng Shǎndiàn
TranslatorJoel Martinsen
LanguageChinese
GenreHard science fiction
Publication date
2004
Publication placeChina
Published in English
2018
Pages352
ISBN978-0765394071

Ball Lightning (Chinese: 球状闪电) is a hard science fiction novel by Chinese author Liu Cixin, also considered a prequel to The Three-Body Problem. The original Chinese language version was published in 2004. In 2018 the English language version, translated by Joel Martinsen, was published in the US by Tor Books.[1]

  1. ^ Jones, Antony (3 September 2018). "Ball Lightning by Liu Cixin" (Review). SFBook. Retrieved 8 August 2021.