Beggars in SpainHarper Collins, 2009 M05 13 - 451 páginas 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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... believe Rand or Le Guin , but what did I believe ? Like many greater authors , I wrote to find out . In Beggars , sleeplessness is the result of altering a few genes in vitro . We still cannot do this reliably , but since 1990 we have ...
... believe that . Mrs. Camden's hair was brown , her eyes were brown , her skin had a brown tinge that might have been pretty if her cheeks had had any color . She wore a brown coat , neither fashionable nor cheap , and shoes that looked ...
... believe me I don't . I just want this marvelous advance- ment you've come up with for my daughter . " His face changed , to an expression Ong wouldn't have believed possible on those particular features : wistfulness . " Doctor , do you ...
... believe that just once the universe has given us something wholly good , wholly a step forward , wholly beneficial ? Without hidden penalties ? " " Not the universe . The intelligence of people like you , ” Camden said , surprising ...