Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress
Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress
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Beggars in Spain

Author: Nancy Kress

Narrator: Cassandra Campell

Unabridged: 16 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/23/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent, and one of a growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep. Once considered interesting anomalies, now Leisha and the other "Sleepless" are outcasts, victims of blind hatred, political repression, and shocking mob violence meant to drive them from human society and, ultimately, from Earth itself.But Leisha Camden has chosen to remain behind in a world that envies and fears her "gift, a world marked for destruction in a deadly conspiracy of freedom and revenge.

About Nancy Kress

Nancy Kress is the author of thirty-five books, including twenty-eight novels, four collections of short stories, and three books on writing. She has also authored over 100 short stories. Her work has won six Nebulas (for Beggars in Spain, The Flowers of Aulit Prison, Out of All Them Bright Stars, Fountain of Age, The Erdmann Nexus, and Yesterday’s Kin); two Hugos (for Beggars in Spain and The Erdmann Nexus); a Sturgeon (for The Flowers of Aulit Prison); and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for Probability Space). Her work has been translated into Swedish, Danish, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Croatian, Chinese, Lithuanian, Romanian, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Russian, Hungarian, and Klingon, none of which she can read. Much—though not all—of her later work concerns genetic engineering, on which she holds strong opinions. She has contributed stories on this topic to an anthology based on Microsoft’s Advanced Research division and to one created by the magazine Economist to showcase tech developments in the year 2050, among others. In addition to writing, Nancy has taught creative writing at various venues around the country, including Clarion, and abroad, and for thirteen years, she and Walter Jon Williams co-taught Taos Toolbox, a two-week intensive SF-writing course.Nancy lives in Seattle with her husband, writer Jack Skillingstead, and Pippin, a very indulged Chihuahua.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kara on December 04, 2013

I love to sleep. I prefer at least eight, preferably nine hours of sleep each night. Going to bed at midnight and waking up at nine in the morning is a perk of my madcap, Bohemian university student lifestyle that I will have to abandon once I become a stern, starched-collar high school teacher. For......more

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on September 30, 2019

ENGLISH Eternally timeless allegory of discrimination by aversions against technology Unique idea to portray the social impact of physical and mental modification by genetic engineering. Can be converted to any society in which inequality and prejudice prevail. Raises the question of how to deal with t......more

Goodreads review by Apatt on June 27, 2015

Last book of 2012 for me, a good end to the year. Beggars in Spain is the sort of sf novel that posits a basic idea and extrapolate from that the foundation to look at the ramifications and implications of this idea from all possible angles. The "high concept" idea is very simple, in the near geneti......more

Goodreads review by Allison on December 29, 2019

Time of death: 75% I regret that this didn't capture me, and the continued shaming and torture of people with handicaps or abnormalities while simultaneously invoking rape/incest as natural proclivities took me from bored to uncomfortable. The idea was interesting: what if you didn't have to sleep? Ho......more

Goodreads review by Howard on August 26, 2022

5.5 Stars for Beggars in Spain: Sleepless, Book 1 (audiobook) by Nancy Kress read by Cassandra Campbell. I just love this book. This is a reread for me and this time I noticed that it’s the first book in a series. I’m so excited. I’ve got two more books to read.......more

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