Beggars in Spain

Beggars in Spain
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
AuthorNancy Kress
Cover artistKenneth Jackson
LanguageEnglish
SeriesSleepless series
GenreScience fiction
PublisherWilliam Morrow and Company
Publication date
1993
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages438
ISBN0-688-12189-6
OCLC26219018
813/.54 20
LC ClassPS3561.R46 B4 1993
Followed byBeggars and Choosers 

Beggars in Spain is a 1993 science fiction novel by American writer Nancy Kress. It was originally published as a novella with the same title in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and as a limited edition paperback by Axolotl Press in 1991. Kress expanded it, adding three additional parts to the novel, and eventually two sequels, Beggars and Choosers (1994) and Beggars Ride (1996). It is held to be an important work,[by whom?] and is often hailed for its predictions of emerging technologies and society.[1][2]

The original novella won the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. The novel was also nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, but did not win.

  1. ^ Deborah Lynn Steinberg (3 March 2016). Genes and the Bioimaginary: Science, Spectacle, Culture. Routledge. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-317-12946-2.
  2. ^ Maxwell J. Mehlman (21 August 2012). Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares: The Promise and Peril of Genetic Engineering. JHU Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-4214-0727-2.