Nova, 2019

On the day he turns fourteen, Chen witnesses a glowing sphere enter his home and incinerate his parents. Determined to find some meaning in this strange tragedy, he devotes himself to unraveling the secret of the mysterious phenomenon that left him an orphan. His search for the luminous sphere will take him far from home—chasing storms atop mountain peaks and delving into secret underground laboratories—while gradually uncovering new frontiers in particle physics.

Although Chen’s obsession is the reason for his solitary life, it cannot shield him from the global interests behind his discoveries. He will have to face a physicist unconcerned with moral boundaries in the pursuit of knowledge; an alluring military officer obsessed with new methods of warfare; and, ultimately, an entire nation desperate to stave off an inevitable military defeat…

Invoking new cosmological and philosophical worlds through meticulous scientific speculation, The Luminous Sphere offers everything that made Cixin Liu’s readers fall in love with The Three-Body Problem.