Cixin Liu: Live at Politics and Prose - Free Audiobook

Cixin Liu discusses his novel, Ball Lightning, in Politics and Prose.

A nine-time winner of China’s prestigious Galaxy Award, Liu gained an English-language audience with The Three-Body Problem, which earned the Hugo Award. His new book combines mystery, science, and philosophy for a fast-paced quest tale that also considers the moral issues of how we use the technology we invent. The narrative follows Chen, a quantum physicist, who’s dedicated his life to solving the mystery of ball lightning, the inexplicable phenomenon that killed his parents. Others are also interested in the lightning, among them Lin Yun, who wants to harness its ferocious power for the military. As Chen learns more about the forces behind the lightning, he also struggles to reconcile his values with the social and political consequences of his work.

Liu is in conversation with Everdeen Mason, audience editor and sci-fi/fantasy columnist for The Washington Post_._