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Beggars and Choosers
The Beggars Trilogy: Book #2
By Nancy Kress, Gabrielle de Cuir & Skyboat Road Company
Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Cassandra Campbell, Mirron Willis & Kirsten Potter / 12 hours 8 minutes
In Beggars and Choosers, Kress returns to the same future world created in her earlier work, an America strangely altered by genetic modifications. Millions of ordinary people are supported by the efforts of the handsome and intellectually superior genetically modified humans, who are in turn running scared in the face of the astonishing, nearly superhuman powers of the Sleepless, who have their own agenda for humanity. The Sleepless, radically altered humans, have withdrawn from the rest of the race to an island retreat, from which they periodically release dazzling scientific advances.
Most of the world is on the verge of collapse, overburdened by a population of jobless drones and racked by the results of irresponsible genetic research and nanotechnology.
The question arises as to whether or not the world can be saved but a bigger question remains: for whom?
Beggars and Choosers is a major work of hard science fiction and a rich, morally complex novel of a future world eerily like our own tomorrow.
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Beggars in Spain
By: Nancy Kress
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 16 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Beggars and Choosers
By: Nancy Kress, Gabrielle de Cuir & Skyboat Road Company
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Cassandra Campbell, Mirron Willis & Kirsten Potter
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In Beggars and Choosers, Kress returns to the same future world created in her earlier work, an America strangely altered by genetic modifications. Millions of ordinary people are supported by the efforts of the handsome and intellectually superior genetically modified humans, who are in turn running scared in the face of the astonishing, nearly... Read more »
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Beggars Ride
By: Nancy Kress
Narrated by: Judy Young
Length: 15 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In this unforgettable conclusion to Nancy Kress' groundbreaking trilogy which began with the Nebula Award-winning Beggars in Spain, it is now two hundred years in the future. Regular human beings hate and fear the Sleepless and the SuperSleepless, genetically modified humans who are immune to disease and hunger and do not need to sleep. When the... Read more »
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| Author | Gabrielle de Cuir, Skyboat Road Company & Nancy Kress |
| Narrator | Kirsten Potter, Cassandra Campbell, Stefan Rudnicki & Mirron Willis |
| ISBN | 9781483058016 |
| Length | 12 hours 8 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Publication date | February 17, 2009 |
| Edition | Unabridged |
| Libro.fm rank | #182,573 Overall |
| Genre rank | #6,115 in Science Fiction |