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YA Science Fiction. Ice Planet partially terraformed. From 1960's-1990's?.
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1985ish to 1990 but I don't think it was new.
It's not Ring-Rise Ring-Set although that looks like a good book.
Is your husband sure this is YA and not adult fiction?
Not sure but it was in his middle school library
What's the Name of That Book???
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It was a science fiction novel that took place on an ice planet that had been partially terraformed. An artificial moon focused the sun's light around the equator so there was a habitable belt of land suitable for farming and cities. The rest of the planet had an arctic-like environment. Most people lived in this belt of land but there were people who lived in the tundras, sometimes in small towns or sometimes in tribes.
The people of the tribes believed that the brilliant multicolored light from the artificial moon gave them powers and mostly eschewed the rest of the colonists on the planet, who thought they were nuts. Though the powers were never really shown in the book itself it is possible the people were right and did have powers.
Possibly the story took from the POV of a person (I think it was a woman) from off-world. They may have been from a planet named New Terra, but even if they weren't that planet was mentioned.
Part of the plot involved the daughter of someone from one of the equatorial cities running off to the barren ice to the north and falling in with one of the tribes. Apparently impressed with their abilities she decided to stay. I think the protagonist was investigating her disappearance. I know the protagonist stayed in one of the northern villages on the tundra along the ocean at one point.
He said it is not the Mars trilogy.