![]() ![]() Between them, so dangerous that the authorities only permit it to be crossed by train, is the slowly creeping frontier known as Dusk. ![]() Elsewhere in Norway, almost two thousand kilometres further north, the mountains surrounding Tromsø combine with its latitude to create two months a year of constant polar night.ĭayzone and Nocturna, the twinned cities of Jeff Noon’s A Man of Shadows, push the situations of Rjukan and Tromsø to searing and sunless extremes: while Dayzone is kept in permanent sunlight by a system of artificial lamps, blazing globes and neon tubes rigged for miles across the entire sky, Nocturna is shielded utterly from sunlight by barriers that keep it in permanent darkness, studded with fixed constellations of electric stars. The small town in Telemark, crammed on to the narrow floor of a deep valley, installed giant heliostatic mirrors high on the mountainside in 2013 to reflect direct sunlight into the town square. For six months of the year in Rjukan, citizens only feel the sun through mirrors. ![]()
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