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Re:Speculoos-2c: A new potentially habitable earth by somedude895 on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @08:21AM (#32749635)
> temperate, twilit ring straddling them.

That sounds like a cool sci fi setting

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Re:Speculoos-2c: A new potentially habitable earth by jkestner on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @10:24AM (#32751037)
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson has a city on Mercury that stays at twilight on the terminator, but being on a rotating planet, it has to keep moving on a massive track. Until it doesn't.
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Re:Speculoos-2c: A new potentially habitable earth by kemayo on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @11:04AM (#32751587)
Throwing something older than the sibling comments onto this: Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny (1971).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_Shadows

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Re:Speculoos-2c: A new potentially habitable earth by AndrewStephens on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @08:30AM (#32749709)
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders from a few years ago has this exact premise. It was nominated for a Hugo - I thought it was just OK.
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