Beggars & choosers / Nancy Kress.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kress, Nancy.

Contributor:

Richeid, David, illustrator.

Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Kress, Nancy. Beggars trilogy.

Beggars trilogy

Beggars trilogy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetic engineering--United States--Fiction.

Genetic engineering.

United States.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)

Physical Description:

315 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Book club edition.

Other Title:

Beggars and choosers

Place of Publication:

New York : TOR, 1994.

Summary:

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 the handsome and intellectually superior gene-modified, 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 The Sleepless, radically altered humans, have withdrawn from the rest of the race to an island retreat, from which they periodically release dazzling scientific advances.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 nano-technology. Will the world be saved? And for whom?

Notes:

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

Jacket art by David Richeid.

Local Notes:

Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.

Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.

Cited in:

Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 3905

ISBN:

0312857497

OCLC:

270927772

Publisher Number:

06125 Science Fiction Book Club