Allusions/references To Actual History, Geography and Current Science
- Mostly set in Richmond, Virginia, and Miami, Florida. Short scenes set in Knoxville, Tennessee, a bayou near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a Texas prison, and Szczecin, Poland.
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