Beggars and choosers
(2009)

Fiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2009
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 08 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781433270024 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT10026603, 1433270021 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 10026603
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Read by Stefan Rudnicki

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 handsome and intellectually superior gene-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 The Sleepless, radically altered humans, have withdrawn from the rest of the race to an island retreat, from which they periodically release dazzling scientific advances.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. Will the world be saved? And for whom? Beggars and Choosers is a rich, morally complex novel of a future world eerily like our own tomorrow. It is a major work of hard science fiction

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