Book 7 of The Window

The Window That Won't Turn Off

Light and Time

by J. Brandon Hughes

The oldest question any creature answers: what time is it?

You carry a clock that reads light as information, built for nights that were dark. This book follows artificial light at night into the developing clock: the hormone of darkness, the adolescent delay. The mechanism is settled to the molecule. The cost is open, and the book keeps the two apart. The fix is timing, not darkness.

The window

The developing clock

The signal

Artificial light at night

Contents

Movement One · The Obvious Thing

1. Overture · The Counterfeit Dawn
2. Chapter 1 · The Clock You Can't Feel
3. Chapter 2 · Light Is Information, Not Illumination
4. Chapter 3 · The Hormone of Darkness
5. Interstitial I · The Bunker

Movement Two · The Thing You're Kidding Me About

1. Chapter 4 · The Animals in the Lit Night
2. Chapter 5 · The Developing Clock
3. Chapter 6 · The Adolescent Delay
4. Interstitial II · The Ward That Never Darkens

Movement Three · The Proof, and Its Limits

1. Chapter 7 · The Body on the Wrong Clock
2. Chapter 8 · The Dose of Light
3. Chapter 9 · Puberty and the Pineal
4. Chapter 9B · The Day That Never Gets Bright
5. Interstitial III · The Last Dark

Movement Four · What It Means, and What to Do

1. Chapter 10 · Not the Content, the Light
2. Chapter 11 · The Fix Is Timing, Not Darkness

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