The prison is set in a barren coastal area. The machine only works one way, leaving prisoners marooned in the past. The colony houses only male exiles, who are sent there as a "humane" alternative to execution. Hawksbill Station was a penal colony in the Cambrian Period created by an authoritarian United States government, using time travel to exile rebels and political dissidents into the past. The novel was published in 1968 and was released in the United Kingdom under the title The Anvil of Time. The novel is an expanded version of a short story first published in Galaxy Science Fiction in August 1967. Hawksbill Station is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg.
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