La esfera luminosa

The new novel by the Chinese author who is sweeping the world with The Three-Body Problem: 5,000,000 readers.

On his fourteenth birthday, Chen witnesses a luminous sphere enter his house and incinerate his parents. To make sense of this strange misfortune, he decides to dedicate himself to deciphering the secret of the mysterious phenomenon that left him an orphan. The search for the luminous sphere will take him far from home, chasing storms on mountain peaks and venturing into secret underground laboratories, gradually discovering new limits in particle physics.

Although Chen's obsession is the reason for his solitary life, it will not be able to protect him from the global interests behind his discoveries. Thus, he will have to face a physicist who knows no moral limits when it comes to knowledge; an attractive military woman obsessed with new warfare techniques; an entire nation, in short, desperate to face an inevitable military defeat...

Invoking new cosmological and philosophical worlds from meticulous scientific speculation, The Luminous Sphere has everything that made Cixin Liu's readers enjoy The Three-Body Problem so much.

Critics have said:

«Readers interested in the most advanced and slightly speculative science and the philosophy of scientific ethics will want to read this magnificent novel.»

Publishers Weekly

«The Luminous Sphere shows the inherent dangers of experimental weapon development and, ultimately, has all the elements that made Liu Cixin burst onto the global science fiction scene with The Three-Body Problem.»

The Verge

«Surprising and fascinating in equal measure (though not for the usual reasons).»

Kirkus Reviews