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We live on a miles-deep disc of rock and soil, a flat circle fixed in place and quite immobile.

Right in the centre, like the spindle of a turntable, stands what we call the North Pole, around which the continents are variously organized. Around those continents stretch the ocean: vast tracts of water spanning away from the land in every direction as far as the eye can see.

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At the ocean’s end towers Antarctica – or rather, the Antarctic Ice Wall, an insurmountable 200-foot glacial rampart that surrounds the world on all sides. And above everything looms a dome made of an adamantine glass. It’s called The Firmament. It protects us from harm and keeps the sun and the moon and the air inside.

The sun and the moon, of course, are very small and very close together. Both hang in the air not far from the ground. They loop around us, heating and lighting different areas locally, and seem to disappear from view periodically – not because they’re dropping beneath the horizon, but because they’re moving too far away to see.