Series
Sleepless
Nancy Kress · 3 novels · 1 novella · 1 novelette · 1991–1999
Genetic engineering produces a small class of 'Sleepless' children who never need to sleep and grow up smarter, healthier, and more capable than everyone else, and Nancy Kress's Beggars in Spain follows one of them, Leisha Camden, as ordinary 'Sleepers' come to resent and fear what the Sleepless represent. The novel uses the divide to ask hard questions about what a society owes people it considers unproductive, and what the gifted owe everyone else. Beggars and Choosers and Beggars Ride carry the same conflict forward across the following decades as the Sleepless gain real power.
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The order the books came out.
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Sleepless at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1990s5
Shape
3 novels · 1 novella · 1 novelette
1 author
reads like:science fictiongenetic engineeringnorth americanear futurechallengingadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Beggars & Choosersdarkest
- Beggars Ridebrightest · calmest
- Beggars in Spainmost intense