Three Body Problem -- Arghhhh!

[lydy]

So, anybody else really unhappy with this much touted novel? Finished it today, and am so very frustrated. It doesn't go below No Award, but really, I was hoping for so much better.

Will talk to anyone who wants to talk in comments. Spoilers a-ok in comments.

Arghhh.

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[lydy.livejournal.com]

Can anybody speak to the Big Science part of the book? I mean the physics Big Science, not the biological Big Science. The biological bit seems utterly unrealistic and unreasonable. But rolling out a proton, writing on it, turning it into an intelligent being, rolling it back up, and sending it off to do one's bidding -- does any of that make any sense at all? Is the structure of a proton in any way that complex? Temporarily assuming one can redimension it, is there any reason to think you could, you know, imprint a circuit on it, and if you could, wouldn't that fundamentally change the structure of the proton? Aren't they doing it by moving about mesons and nuclear forces? Why would it roll back up again, after you'd messed with it? And what is powering the computer? And how come they can write artificial intelligences? We can't, aren't even close, and they just do it *bam*, out of the blue?

And a niggling annoyance: what the hell is a "Trisolarian hour"? Why hour? Of what is it comprised? How do they measure time, what with their solar system being all chaotic?

Oh, and back to the biology, why do they only have two sexes? Oh, the biology. Arghhh.