{"product_id":"2940169918618","title":"Beggars and Choosers: The Beggars Trilogy, Book 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 1995 Hugo Award Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 1995 Locus Award Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 1995 Nebula Award Nominee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBeggars and Choosers\u003c\/i\u003e, Kress returns to the same future world created in her earlier work, an America strangely altered by genetic modifications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Millions of ordinary people are supported by the efforts of the handsome and intellectually superior genetically modified humans, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Sleepless, radically altered humans, have withdrawn from the rest of the race to an island retreat, from which they periodically release dazzling scientific advances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost 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 nanotechnology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe question arises as to whether or not the world can be saved but a bigger question remains: for whom?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeggars and Choosers\u003c\/i\u003e is a major work of hard science fiction and a rich, morally complex novel of a future world eerily like our own tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Blackstone Audio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150443135216,"sku":"2940169918618","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169918618_p0.jpg?v=1769902923","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169918618","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}