A thought struck me: the world would be a fascinating place if that instant were sustained. Electric blue bursts froze the rain into solid drops for an instant, forming dense strands of glittering crystal beads suspended between heaven and earth. The storm that night made it seem as if the whole universe held nothing but rapid flashes of lightning surrounding our small dining room. I only remembered that it was my birthday because Mom and Dad lit the candles on the cake and we sat down around fourteen small tongues of flame. Please enjoy this excerpt, and download the free digital preview to continue reading.
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.īall Lightning will be available on August 14th. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. 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.
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