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Gateway by Frederik Pohl - A Classic Sci-Fi Book Retelling

I just finished reading Gateway by Frederik Pohl and I need to talk about it.

This book won the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Award when it came out in 1977. And honestly, after reading it, I get why. It hit different from most sci-fi I have read.

Chapter 6: Tianjin Eco-City - Building a Green City From Scratch

Chapter 6 is written by Chen Gang, and it’s about one of the most interesting things Singapore and China have done together. They decided to build an eco-friendly city from scratch. Not renovate an existing one. Not add solar panels to some buildings. They picked a 30-square-kilometre patch of mostly useless land, salt farms and wastewater ponds, and said: “Let’s build a green city here.”