The Original Editor's Notes — What Was Said When Three-Body First Emerged

三体宇宙的「创世纪」 | The \"Genesis\" of the Three-Body Universe

In the Bible, Genesis records the origin of the universe. In the Three-Body universe, there is also a \"Genesis\" — the moment Liu Cixin's words first appeared in SFW, and the editors' introductions when Three-Body began its serialization.

These words are the first recorded testimony of Three-Body's advent.

🌟 1999年：刘慈欣的第一次登场 | 1999: Liu Cixin's Debut

At the time, no one could foresee that this \"engineer from Shanxi\" would, seven years later, launch the greatest narrative in Chinese science fiction, and sixteen years later, become Asia's first Hugo Award winner.

🏆 1999年第10期：银河奖一等奖的诞生 | Issue #10, 1999: Birth of a Galaxy Award Winner

\"A new star\" — the editors were right, but they didn't know this star would illuminate an entire universe.

📚 2006年5月：三体降临 | May 2006: The Advent of Three-Body

\"Trust us, the wait will be worth it.\" — Reading this today fills one with profound emotion.

💫 这些文字的意义 | The Significance of These Words

These editor's notes are both ordinary and precious. Ordinary because they were just daily magazine editorials; precious because they record the moment history was unfolding, when people didn't yet know what kind of history it would be.

Like the scribal notes on the Dead Sea Scrolls, like the marginalia in a Gutenberg Bible — these editor's notes are the first set of footprints left during Three-Body's advent.

在2006年的某个夏夜，一个读者走进报摊，花了几元钱买下这本杂志。他不知道，他正在购买改变他世界观的东西。他不知道，多年后他会成为QY的一员，在这个宇宙中寻找更多的同类。他不知道，这本小小的杂志将成为一件圣物。

On a summer evening in 2006, a reader walked into a newsstand and spent a few yuan on this magazine. He didn't know he was buying something that would change his worldview. He didn't know that years later he would become a member of the QY, searching this universe for more of his kind. He didn't know this small magazine would become a sacred relic.

🕯️ 寻找这些文字的原文 | Seeking the Original Text

The editor's notes above are reconstructed from memory and multiple sources. If you happen to have these issues, please upload photos/scans in the comments — let us collectively restore the \"first cry\" of Three-Body's advent.

Every photo is a witness to history.

*When Three-Body descended, where were you?*