All the tests and insemination go smoothly, with just one hitch – by fluke accident, Elizabeth Camden is implanted not only with her genetically modified daughter’s embryo, but also naturally conceives a second child, simultaneously. Camden and his reluctant wife approach the finest reproductive scientists that money can buy to conceive their biological daughter – a girl genetically engineered to be free of disease, predisposed to intelligence and beauty… and who will never require sleep. For all of Camden’s successes, however, his greatest hope lies with his true legacy – a child. Roger Camden is a self-made man and a business mogul who has amassed a formidable fortune through power of will and ceaseless work.
When this novella didn’t win an Old School Wendesday Readalong poll a few months back, I was heartbroken – but not for long, because I greedily decided to read this heralded SFF novella for myself. Why did I read this book: I’ve read a few works by Nancy Kress in the past year, and have been wholly taken in by her writing. Stand alone or series: The first part of the Sleepless Series (collected in the full-length novel of the same name in 1993). Are they the future of humanity? Or will the small community of ‘sleepless’ be hunted down as freaks by a world that has grown wary of its newest creation? Leisha Camden is a genetically engineered ‘Sleepless.’ Her ability to stay awake all the time has not only made her more productive, but the genetic modifications have also given the ‘Sleepless’ a higher IQ and may even make them immortal. PLEASE NOTE: This is the original novella which won the Hugo and Nebula awards. Title: Beggars in Spain (Original Novella)
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