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Originally Posted by GeoffC
It is 1997. The British government now runs island prison colonies to take dangerous offenders from its overcrowded mainland jails.
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Out of curiosity, Geoff: is "jails" the usual way for spelling "gaols" in British print these days? Or is this a US-printed book?
(I was recently given a dead-tree copy of "The Traveller" by John Twelve Hawks; the cover was printed in Australia, and said "Traveller", but the body of the book was printed in the US, and read "Traveler" throughout. Then why bother with the token gesture of the cover?)
(Oh, and since we're talking about what we're reading, I'll edit this to toss in a comment: interesting concepts behind the story, but I personally found the book almost unreadable.)