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Imagine growing up on a tidally locked world, living in the day, until you wander off for long enough to discover the night.
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy has an alien species that evolved on a planet (Krikkit)with constant thick dust clouds.
Isaac Asimov also mused about ribbon worlds. ie tidally locked planets with a habitable zone in the twilight regions.
I seem to recall also reading a story about a species on a ribbon world but because of precession had a 10,000 year (or so) day. They had a constant slow migration and eventually started finding the ancient forgotten ruins of their own society.
Also nightfall by Asimov.
Can you remember the name of that 10000 year book? It's been ages since I've read some hard science of the type
I'm sure I read it online it might have just been a scifi writing prompt from the site that must not be named (reddit).