Ball Lightning FIRST UK EDITION

London: Head of Zeus, 2018. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A first UK edition, with full number line indicating the first printing, of Ball Lightning by the Hugo and Locus Award-winning science fiction novelist Cixin Liu, author of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, now a Netflix streaming series written and developed by Game of Thrones' David Benioff and D.B. Weiss with True Blood's Alexander Woo.

9 1/4" X 6". 384pp, plus ad. A hint of shelfwear to pictorial dust jacket featuring the artwork of Stephan Martiniere. Bound in bright red cloth-like paper (truncated) over boards, with white lettering to spine. Red silk ribbon placemarker bound in. Very gentle bumping to tail of spine, else fine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable first UK printing of Cixin Liu's Ball Lightning.

ABOUT BALL LIGHTNING:
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Three-Body Trilogy, Cixin Liu's Ball Lightning is the story of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against the drive to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences.

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. (Inventory #: 15921)