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Beggars in Spain
Beggars in Spain | Nancy Kress
6 posts | 17 read | 18 to read
In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent ... and one of an ever-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 devastating conspiracy of freedom ... and revenge.
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Twainy
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🎧 Some cool science FICTION. 😁 I love the outlandish!

What if you could genetically change your baby not to sleep & not sleeping had amazing side effects. Now imagine that your genetically enhanced embryo takes but you accidentally also get pregnant naturally with your run of the mill baby. Now there‘s a set of female twins!

The book exposes the dark sides of humanity & the genetically enhanced.

Fun read

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 (edit: autocorrect)

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Twainy
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🎧 I love the library!

For months my hold list moved achingly slow 😫

Last week I suddenly had 11 books out on loan, several leap frogging books that had shown availability in 3 weeks for weeks.

I‘m down to 5 loans & the tagged book is a free selection from the Audible Plus catalog that‘s been on my TBR forever. 🖤

What are your favorite means of obtaining books?

I love books 🖤

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catsuit_mango
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When husband goes in town to buy himself a book and brings you a science fiction and fantasy magazine because 'there are only women on the cover, I thought you' d like it' :) and Nancy kress just entered my tbr yesterday :)

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whimsy
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Mehso-so

This took ages to finish, no thanks to...smelly pages.

I bought it from the bargain bin ages ago so the pages have yellowed. It's a 2004 edition so it's been around for a while.

I just found out that this was originally a novella and that explains why it feels like, a stretch. I loved the beginning which showed the narrative's potential but it keeps extending and extending until it never seems to end (there are 2 more books that I'm giving up).

whimsy It's a 90s scifi book set in a future (our own present) where genetical modification is commonplace. And for the first time, they removed sleep. The book posits that the sleepless reach their maximum human potential and are happier and more productive as a result. The sleepless are seen as wunderkinds until it was discovered that they never age and will likely live forever. So they're freaks now. Intriguing concept! But lacked...humanity somehow. 6y
whimsy It reads like a long newspaper feature at times, with multiple parts that just dragged. I was already bored at the end until multigenerational characters converged and there was a message of hope (which all goes to shit in the next books so I'm just not bothering anymore.) 6y
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2BR02B
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#tbt to the time I got just a tad carried away at the local #librarysale

diovival Wow! 8y
britt_brooke 😵👏🏻 8y
Aswenson 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Love it! 8y
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RinaBrahmbhattBarot Just a tad bit, eh ;) 8y
chapter_fifty2017 You grabbed yourself some great titles, well done !!! 8y
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StaceyKondla
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One of my most favourite Scifi reads ever for #Recommendsday!! Published in 1993. What if babies could be genetically manipulated to no longer need sleep? What sort of advantage would those sleepless babies have as adults over the regular masses that still need sleep? How would this push human evolution? I simply loved this thought provoking and stimulating book and continue to love Nancy Kress's writing!!

CherylDeFranceschi Fantastic rec! Thank you! 8y
StaceyKondla @CherylDeFranceschi - I really hope you enjoy it as much as I did! 😊 8y
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