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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... created people who never need to sleep at all. Take that, me- tabolism! Vicarious triumph through the power of imagination! The first time I created the Sleepless was in a dreadful short story written in 1977. Sleeplessness was a ...
... created by a rogue mad scientist - type who even- tually kills himself . Melodrama and nihilism . Again everybody ... creating a favored class of people in a United States becoming increasingly polarized between rich and poor . I also ...
... created twenty children who don't need to sleep at all , that so far nineteen are healthy , intelligent , and psychologically nor- mal . In fact , they're better than normal ; they're all unusually preco- cious . The oldest is already ...
... created equal in ability . It's talking about rights and power ; it means that all are created equal under the law . We have no more right to a separate society or to being free of society's restrictions than anyone else does . There's ...