The problem comes from the literary existential crisis that occurs when you read 3BP half an hour after ‘Starbound’. But, my gripes with ‘Vikings’ aside, what then, exactly, is the problem? I mean, ‘Vikings’ was amazing at first but we all know that’s jumped the shark. Yeah, you might be confused about that last one, but I stand by it. And here are some other things it isn’t:īoring. I’m now 27% of the way in, and in my opinion, 3BP is not inaccessible to the girl who has forgotten everything she’s ever learned about physics. So, while I had been apprehensive that a ‘hard’ sci-fi book like 3BP might prove inaccessible to C-in-GCSE-Physics-girl, an hour later I decided to at least start the book. But since I bought ‘The Three-Body Problem’ right after ‘Starbound’ they were right next to each other in the display on my kindle when I went to start the latter, and 3BP and my earlier promise to read it stuck in my mind. But as all fun must come to an end at some point, I eventually put it down to get back to work. I got a third of the way through in one sitting it was that hilarious. It starts with the protagonist, Katia, musing on how she can’t believe that people don’t believe in ‘magick’, because rainbows exist, and how else would you explain fucking rainbows, man? See, what’s happened is, I recently picked up my next book for the Rachelloon Review Show a book called ‘Starbound’. No, this is about the novel the novel up for both a Hugo and a Nebula award, and apparently loved by all sides of the award controversy. And I mean, I only got a C even at that stage, so you know everything I say is bollocks. However, the problem in this post is not referring to a discussion of that problem which you might have guessed when I said I dropped physics at GCSE.
Those readers in the know may think the ‘problem’ in my title refers to one in physics, i.e., extrapolating the future movements of three bodies from the character of their properties at a specific point in time–and I dropped physics after GCSE, so I have no idea if that made sense or not, but since I now have it on good authority that physics doesn’t exist, I’m feeling pretty confident.
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