Beggars in Spain (Sleepless, Book 1) - Nancy Kress

Category: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Language: EnglishKeywords: Fantasy Literature Nebula Award Novella Science Fiction Speculative Fiction
Written by Nancy Kress
Read by Cassandra Campbell
Format: MP3
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Nebula Award Winner, Novella, 1991
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 by a deadly conspiracy of freedom and revenge.
“Superb….An exquisite saga of biological advantages.” ( Denver Post)
“A depth of imagination unusual even among science fiction writers.” ( Analog)
“[T]hrilling drama, compelling dialectic.” ( Kirkus Reviews)
Nebula Award Winner, Novella, 1991

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 by a deadly conspiracy of freedom and revenge.

“Superb….An exquisite saga of biological advantages.” ( Denver Post)

“A depth of imagination unusual even among science fiction writers.” ( Analog)

“[T]hrilling drama, compelling dialectic.” ( Kirkus Reviews)