ABANDONED. Sci-fi/Steampunk Short Story: A world in which night & day remain static, creating hemisphere of light * another of darkness. Follows a family of high status where the son grows up to be a soldier/knight & the daughter a researcher.

[Gaolise]

The short story was part of a "Best of Fantasy/Sci-fi" anthology in the late 2000's. Bonus points for finding the anthology as well since the collection had quite a few great stories. Including a story about an old self-driving car that protects his family from an accident.

Additional details:

Civilization resembles Victorian English culture, with a system of knights and a queen if I recall correctly. The family, when the children are still kids, ride through a train. The creatures of the darkness are explained to the children as a sort of boogeyman.

Spoilers:

The daughter embarks on a journey into the region of darkness with a research team. There, they find remains that suggest that the creatures of darkness had a culture of sorts and find primitive artwork depicting the humans as monsters/invaders from the light, throwing everyone who bought the whole "dark creatures = monster" idea in for a loop.

[Kate]

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[Kris]

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