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Beggars in Spain

By: Nancy Kress
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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Summary

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.
©1993 Nancy Kress (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Fantasy Science Fiction
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"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)

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Surprised I didn't know about this book!

I found this book quite randomly and really glad I did. there was one part where I felt the story was dragging on a bit but I'm so glad I persevered as it was definitely worth it. great narration too

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