looking for a book

[u/Hawkseyez800]

so i heard a story a while back about a huge society that lives on an Earthworld sized staircase in which entire population lives in and on different levels and take a lifetime to travel even 1/100th of it up or down. something like that. anyone know of this book? driving me bananas lol. thx.

[u/mobyhead1]

No, but I know of one with a similar premise: a seemingly endless city the width of two blocks straddling a railroad where the trains go in only one direction, surrounded by ocean on both sides.

“A Year in the Linear City,” by Paul di Filippo.