ISBN 0-812-55010-2 (US pbk),,, 0-45-145484-7 (UK pbk)

"Nancy Kress returns to the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning world of Beggars in Spain to tell a new tale in an America of the future, 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 from the astonishing, nearly superhuman powers of the Sleepless.

"Wracked by the results of irresponsible genetic research and nanotechnology, overburdened by a population of jobless drones, the whole world is on the edge of collapse. Who will save it? And for whom?" [jacket blurb, US pbk, February 1996]

"It's a superlative book. It is not a sort of revival or recreation. Nobody wrote this way in the Golden Age. Good as they were, they weren't good in the right way to write this. Nobody but Nancy Kress is." --Gene Wolfe (in Locus ).

"A writer who has something more than a yarn to spin, she takes on important social, philosophical and political issues, showing both the bright and dark sides of what humanity could come to in the near future. It's more than a little reminiscent of Huxley's Brave New World : Kress is one of the few modern science and projective fiction writers willing to attack some important issues, àla the British 'Utopian' writers." -- (in Amarillo News-Globe ).

"Nancy Kress explores the implications of advanced science applied to social conditions. Her questing text presents us with intelligent reasoning, memorable characters, and food for thought. All this wrapped in a page-turning story beautifully told." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , October 1996).

Highly recommended.

Albacon '96 -- Tentative Program Schedule
(with Nancy Kress and Shirley Maiewski as guests)

Beggars and Choosers
(an excerpt from the book... at the Tor site)

Nancy Kress
(bio material)

Nancy Kress -- Beggars and Choosers
('Alpha Ralpha Boulevard' entry... site maintained by Espana N.Sheriff)