Beggars Ride (Audible Audio Edition) Nancy Kress Judy Young Inc Blackstone Audio Books
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[This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.]
[Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir]
[Read by Judy Young]
In this unforgettable conclusion to Nancy Kress' groundbreaking trilogy which began with the Nebula Award-winning Beggars in Spain, it is now two hundred years in the future. Regular human beings hate and fear the Sleepless and the SuperSleepless, genetically modified humans who are immune to disease and hunger and do not need to sleep. When the Sleepless plot to take over the world and leave regular humans powerless, civilization and the very meaning of the word ''human'' hang in the balance.
Beggars Ride (Audible Audio Edition) Nancy Kress Judy Young Inc Blackstone Audio Books
Beggars Ride by Nancy Kress is the last of the Beggars in Spain trilogy and is good, but I think of the three Beggars and Choosers is the best. While the first two books stood well on their own, I don't think Beggars Ride could be easily understood without reading at least one of its predecessors because the characters and situations appear full blown, without enough background to feel you know them. The theme of the books is about the sociological stresses between the genetically modified and those who aren't. It is the ancient battle between the rich and the poor or the mentally bright verses the dull witted, basically the haves and the have nots. In this book the have nots are genetically enhanced so they never need food and can never get sick. As they no longer need the genetically modified haves the societies of both have broken down. The big problem both face is that the syringes that contain the genetic modifier are almost gone and they can't inoculate the new children who need food and can die of disease. The beauty of this story is its clear and possible depiction of what happens when everybody has everything they need to survive, but the challenges that make life worth living. It is a chilling look into the future that reminds us that an important part of being human is to overcome the obstacles survival puts before us and to help those below or above us to survive because their talents may be what save us in the future.Product details
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Beggars Ride (Audible Audio Edition) Nancy Kress Judy Young Inc Blackstone Audio Books Reviews
The Beggars Trilogy is a sordid tale depicting a drug addicted U.S. population a century into the future. The bio-engineered, genius tribe called the Sleepless decide to play god with the common man. They essentially turn man into plants. They used an injection of nanobots to grow a network embedded in man's skin- enabling him to feed from the soil as roots nourish a tree. Further, man's skin could also use photons like plants do in photosynthesis. How does that sound? The leitmotif reminds me of Eugene O'Neill's LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT. If in a century nanotechnology engulfs genetic engineering it appears the result shown in this book will be artificial life, not enriched life. Genius in this tale snuffs out both hope and free will. The Super sleepless had as much fear of innovation as the retarded sleepers. As both sides fought to retain the old and curtail the new, we are led to a total impasse. A snake swallowing its own tail.
This series is quite an undertaking. The craft of writing is mastered, the suspense sustained to the end, and lots of learning was dispensed on how the brain parts work. The question that must have kept cropping up with Ms. Kress was, "What do I do for an encore?" This confrontation with biogenetic engineering took the reader as deeply into dystopia as is inhumanly possible. Some of the characters actually evolved right out of the human race to become the Sleepless Masters who fortunately, it turned out, had an Achilles heel. The Sleepless saw themselves as gods to the unevolved human. When their plan went up in smoke not a tear was shed by the reader. Why not? Because here was a story of sex without joy, intelligence like dead AI, and spirituality without god. The trilogy spanned over a hundred years but where were the holidays, where was Easter and Christmas? It was bleak, bleaker and bleakest.
_Beggars in Spain,_ the first volume in this trilogy, deservedly won a number of awards in both its short and long forms, and the sequel, _Beggars and Choosers,_ was also excellent. This conclusion, however, while it does its job of wrapping everything up (more or less), is not nearly as convincing. The second volume ended with the Super Sleepless bestowing on mankind, for better or worse, the Change Syringes, which, through some fascinating biochemistry and nanotech, remade the human body to be capable of absorbing nutrients directly from the sun and the soil. So much for starvation and so much for the dependence of the un-genemod Livers on the Donkeys for at least their bare subsistence. But such a radical biological change also means radical social change and the third volume opens a few years the other side of the devastating Change Wars, in which the Livers -- 80% of the U.S. population, mostly ignorant and uneducated, and a drag on the cloistered Donkey economy -- have regressed to nomadic tribes who move with the seasons. (They can lie down in the mud and feed anywhere, but they can still freeze to death in the winter.) And, following twenty-seven years in prison for treason after her attempt to blackmail the government through biological terrorism into allowing the secession of the Sanctuary suborbital habitat, Jennifer Sharifi has been released -- and she wants "final security" for those she regards as her people, regardless of who else has to suffer. Meanwhile, Lizzie Francy, now seventeen, has become perhaps the most skilled data-dipper (i.e., Net hacker) in the country and it's her skills that will become crucial in saving what remains of society. And there are several new characters, especially Dr. Jackson Aranow and his extremely fragile sister, Theresa, who turns out to be far stronger than she ever imagined.
Yes, it's a complicated plot and you have to have read the first two books to have any hope of understanding what's going on, but it all often seems strained and contrived. It's also nearly all action this time with not nearly so much of the philosophical underpinnings as the earlier volumes, and it tends to treat the United States as an isolated, globally uninvolved entity in matters of science, though the author makes it clear the world is closely knit financially and in its communications. I don't think infectious biotech could be so geographically restricted, either. Finally, the ending is ultimately unsatisfying in its hints of uncertain, piecemeal survival; the characters seem way too optimistic about their future, but I don't believe Kress really meant the subsequent future to be dystopian. As always, Kress's writing is vivid and the development of her characters is complete, but her control of her story simply isn't up to the first two volumes.
Of the trilogy , wasn't as into this one as much as others. But still good read.
Beggars Ride by Nancy Kress is the last of the Beggars in Spain trilogy and is good, but I think of the three Beggars and Choosers is the best. While the first two books stood well on their own, I don't think Beggars Ride could be easily understood without reading at least one of its predecessors because the characters and situations appear full blown, without enough background to feel you know them. The theme of the books is about the sociological stresses between the genetically modified and those who aren't. It is the ancient battle between the rich and the poor or the mentally bright verses the dull witted, basically the haves and the have nots. In this book the have nots are genetically enhanced so they never need food and can never get sick. As they no longer need the genetically modified haves the societies of both have broken down. The big problem both face is that the syringes that contain the genetic modifier are almost gone and they can't inoculate the new children who need food and can die of disease. The beauty of this story is its clear and possible depiction of what happens when everybody has everything they need to survive, but the challenges that make life worth living. It is a chilling look into the future that reminds us that an important part of being human is to overcome the obstacles survival puts before us and to help those below or above us to survive because their talents may be what save us in the future.
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