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Nancy Kress, one of the
leading writers of science fiction today, has written a number of
provocative and award-winning stories and novels. But it is with the
Beggars trilogy that she has reached the pinnacle of her success.
Developed out of her Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella, "Beggars in
Spain," the trilogy was launched with Beggars in Spain(1993), also a Nebula nominee for best novel, and continued in Beggars and Choosers (1995). Both received widespread praise and unusual enthusiasm. Locus,
for instance, referred to "the joy of reading a work of SF so
intelligent, humane, involving, utterly genuine...magnificent," and went
on to say, "It is Kress's brilliant achievement in Beggars and Choosers,
that scientific progress and human idealism, the driving forces behind
some of the best hard SF...,never leave behind the passionate muddle
that is life...."
Now the trilogy is completed in Beggars Ride, a
compelling novel of science fiction that raises one of the most
ambitious and large-scale works of the decade to the status of finished
masterpiece. Kress, a writer who had been appropriately compared to H.G.
Wells and Aldous Huxley, deals with evolutionary forces, genetic
engineering, technological progress, and social and class conflict,
confronting enduring issues that face human society in this century and
the next.
The Sleepless and the SuperSleepless, two generations
of genetically modified superhumans, are now in conflict with each
other, and with the spectrum of normal humanity, whose radical division
into the rich and poor has made a parody of democracy in the
twenty-second century. Human civilization has been transformed. Now it
may be destroyed. And if it falls, what kind of world is left, what kind
of humanity?
Nancy Kress has written a work of fiction that
culminates and brings to new fruition the Wellsian strain of SF invented
a century ago.
