Camden and his reluctant wife approach the finest reproductive scientists that money can buy to conceive their biological daughter – a girl genetically engineered to be free of disease, predisposed to intelligence and beauty… and who will never require sleep.
For all of Camden’s successes, however, his greatest hope lies with his true legacy – a child. Roger Camden is a self-made man and a business mogul who has amassed a formidable fortune through power of will and ceaseless work. When this novella didn’t win an Old School Wendesday Readalong poll a few months back, I was heartbroken – but not for long, because I greedily decided to read this heralded SFF novella for myself. Why did I read this book: I’ve read a few works by Nancy Kress in the past year, and have been wholly taken in by her writing. Stand alone or series: The first part of the Sleepless Series (collected in the full-length novel of the same name in 1993). Are they the future of humanity? Or will the small community of ‘sleepless’ be hunted down as freaks by a world that has grown wary of its newest creation? Leisha Camden is a genetically engineered ‘Sleepless.’ Her ability to stay awake all the time has not only made her more productive, but the genetic modifications have also given the ‘Sleepless’ a higher IQ and may even make them immortal. PLEASE NOTE: This is the original novella which won the Hugo and Nebula awards. The scooter factory is part of a broader We-Sleep movement in which Sleepers vow only to buy products made by Sleepers, a form of economic protest and organized resentment against the increasingly successful Sleepless class.Title: Beggars in Spain (Original Novella) Meanwhile, Alice's son Jordan lives in Mississippi and works for a man named Calvin Hawke who runs the We-Sleep scooter factory. For her part, Jennifer has become increasingly militant against the Sleeper community. Richard still lives in Sanctuary and is now married to Jennifer, with whom he has two Sleepless children, Ricky and Najla. Every day, Alice sends Leisha a bouquet of common flowers, as if to remind her sister that ordinary people matter too. Alice still lives in California, and her relationship with Leisha is somewhat strained, in part by Alice's enthusiasm for a pseudo-scientific organization known as the Twin Group, which tracks psychic connections between twins. In 2051, around 20 years after the events of the previous Book, Leisha runs a successful law practice out of Chicago.
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