As a fan, my gratitude goes to Liu Cixin for creating the Three-Body universe and to Baoshu for populating it with many more wonders. It’s exciting to share another piece of this fantastic imaginary world with all other Anglophone fans.
I also want to thank the following individuals for beta-reading the translation and offering valuable advice: Anatoly Belilovsky, Elías Combarro, Rachel Cordasco, Leticia Lara, and Joshua Pheterson. My work benefited much from their input, and any remaining errors and faults are entirely mine.
I’m also grateful to CEPIEC; the publishers, Tor Books and Head of Zeus; and the many individuals who helped make this book possible over time (this list is by no means exhaustive): Richard Li, Kelly Song, Lindsey Hall, Nicolas Cheetham, Seth Fishman, Christopher Morgan, Irene Gallo, Terry McGarry, Heather Saunders, Jamie Stafford-Hill, Ryan Jenkins, Eileen Lawrence, and Desirae Friesen.