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  <default_description>Nancy Kress ends her Beggars trilogy (which began with the novella later turned into a novel, &lt;i&gt;Beggars in Spain&lt;/i&gt;) almost full circle from where it began. Against a backdrop where rich humans have themselves modified to perfection and poor, unmodified &quot;Livers&quot; eke out a nomadic existence, the genetically superior Sleepless have stopped distributing Change. Change is the miracle substance that prevents disease in all humans.  In cutting off Change, the Sleepless have ignited a class war that will ultimately be resolved not by technology and science, but by the children of technology, who must live side-by-side despite their differences.  </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1996</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This third novel seemed to be a bit more brutal and graphic than the other two (though looking back they all had their moments~perhaps i just felt my senses to be more assaulted at the beginning of <em>Beggars Ride</em>~perhaps because it is a tale of a society already in visible crisis...) The trilogy both ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22928326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like that this series extends such a long time period (100+ years).  It gives the author a chance to really develop some of the social and political implications of the science.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The third book in the &quot;Beggars&quot; trilogy. Another excellent read. Nancy Kress manages to maintain her complex society and characters, and provides some indirect social commentary on the nature of human excellence and empathy.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Satisfying completion to the trilogy.  Provocative story on how the talented and mundane interact.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[3rd in Trilogy. Very thought-provoking.]]></body>
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