| Beggars in Spain Contributor(s): Kress, Nancy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060733489 ISBN-13: 9780060733483 Publisher: Harper Voyager OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2004 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Genetic Engineering - Fiction | Science Fiction - Space Opera |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92025070 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.76 lbs) 400 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kress, Nancy: - DAVID BRIN has written or contributed to a dozen works of fiction and science fiction, has a Ph.D in astrophysics, and has been a professor and a NASA consultant.NANCY KRESS is the author of fourteen books of fantasy and science fiction, including both novels and short-story collections. |