Day By Night
The planet did not rotate. On one side eternal day, the sun shining
down hotly from the center of the heavens. On the opposite side eternal
night, the stars glowing cold in the black and airless sky.
Yet
the planet had been colonized. In ages past civilization had dug into
the rock of the darkside and had thrived. aristocrats vied with
aristocrats, and the poor, againt the ever-encroaching cold surface.
To
keep the lower classes happy, Vitra, the storyteller, spun romantic
sagas on the popular network. She imagined a strange world on the
sunside, inhabited by men and woman enmeshed in crime and love, shemes
and intrigues.
Vitra believed she was making this up. But was
she? Was there really another civilization on the bright side and could
it be that what she related was not fiction - but events which would
inevitably send both worlds out of synch to mutual disaster?
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Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee (1947-2015) was a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death's Master (1980).
She also wrote under the pseudonym Esther Garber.
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