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Re: I remember a series of books about a planet that was almost tidal locked Isaac Send a noteboard - 15/02/2013 12:17:43 AM
It rotated something like once a century and so had a dead zone that was high noon and a moving band of a fertile zone at the twilight edges. Not sure how good the science was but I do recall that I liked the books.


Maybe Fossil by Hal clement?

If it was Clement it would have been pretty good science, though not necessarily true in terms of how the environment worked.

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