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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... going to sell . I retired the manuscript . Five years later I tried again . This time sleeplessness was a deliber- ate genetic mutation , created by a rogue mad scientist - type who even- tually kills himself . Melodrama and nihilism ...
... going to answer anyway; that he would regret the lack of self-control, bitterly, later. “The twentieth baby is dead. His parents turned out to be unstable. They separated during the pregnancy, and his mother could not bear the twenty ...
... going to have a Q & A after all . " No. The actual sleep mechanism has some flexibility , but not the same amount for every person . The raphe nuclei on the brain stem- " Ong said , " I don't think we need that level of detail , Susan ...
... going to say. Ong went to have the OB paged. Melling's report was not, under the circumstances, to be trusted. A perfect, unprecedented chance to record every detail of gene alteration with a nonaltered control, and Melling was more ...
... going to the bath- 99 " Why not ? " " Because you're special . room- " It's all right , " Daddy said . " I'll take her with me . " " No ! " Leisha screamed , because Daddy was only in his underpants and his neck had looked all funny and ...