Title: Beggars in Spain

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Title: Beggars in Spain Title Record # 41619
Author: Nancy Kress
Date: 1991-02-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Series: Sleepless
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note: Mistakenly listed as "Beggers in Spain" in Asimov's TOC. Expanded into novel in 1993.
Synopsis: A group of children, mentally gifted as the result of a novel genetic modification which eliminates sleep, must rely on each other as they grow older and incur the resentment and bigotry of the unmodified population.
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Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1992 German Bettler in Spanien
1992 Italian Modificazione genetica
2012 French L'une rêve, l'autre pas

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
1 1992 Asimov's Readers' Best Novella
Win 1992 SF Chronicle Novella
1 1992 Hugo Best Novella
Win 1992 Nebula Novella
2 1992 Locus Best Novella
Win (as L'une rêve, l'autre pas) 1995 Imaginaire Nouvelle étrangère

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog# Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Beggars in Spain 1991-02-00 Nancy Kress Axolotl Press / Pulphouse Publishing #18 $10.00 104 tp chap George Barr Checkmark
Beggars in Spain 1991-02-00 Nancy Kress Axolotl Press / Pulphouse Publishing #18 $35.00 104 hc chap George Barr  
Beggars in Spain 1991-02-00 Nancy Kress Axolotl Press / Pulphouse Publishing #18 $65.00 104 hc chap Checkmark
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1991 1991-04-00 ed. Gardner Dozois Davis Publications   $3.95 324 digest mag Gary Freeman Checkmark
Die Menagerie von Babel 1992-00-00 ed. Wolfgang Jeschke Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #4920) 3-453-05842-9 DM 16.80 525 pb anth Jim Burns Checkmark
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection 1992-07-00 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Press 0-312-07889-7 $27.95 xxxix+
575 		hc anth Bob Eggleton  
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection 1992-07-00 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Press 0-312-07891-9 $15.95 575 tp anth Bob Eggleton Checkmark
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection 1992-08-00 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Press / SFBC #01121 $13.98 xxxix+
575 		hc anth Bob Eggleton Checkmark
Best New SF 6 1992-10-00 ed. Gardner Dozois Robinson 1-85487-131-5 £7.99 xxxix+
575 		tp anth Terry Oakes Checkmark
Millemondinverno 1992: 2 romanzi e 5 racconti 1992-10-00 ed. Giuseppe Lippi Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Millemondi #42)   9,000 Lit 430 tp anth Marco Patrito  
Nebula Awards 27 1993-04-00 ed. James Morrow Harcourt Brace 0-15-164935-9 $24.95 xv+
331 		hc anth Craig Rosenberg Checkmark
Nebula Awards 27 1993-04-00 ed. James Morrow Harcourt Brace 0-15-665471-7 $12.95 xv+
331 		tp anth Craig Rosenberg Checkmark
The Giant Book of Fantastic SF 1995-00-00 ed. Gardner Dozois Magpie Books 1-85487-607-4   xxxix+
575 		tp anth Chris Moore Checkmark
Hugo and Nebula Award Winners from Asimov's Science Fiction 1995-12-00 ed. Sheila Williams Wings Books 0-517-12410-6 $12.99 558 hc anth Chris Moore Checkmark
The New Hugo Winners, Volume IV 1997-11-00 ed. Gregory Benford Baen 0-671-87852-2 $6.99 537 pb anth Bob Eggleton Checkmark
The Science Fiction Century 1997-11-00 ed. David G. Hartwell Tor 0-312-86338-1 $40.00 1005 hc anth John Harris Checkmark
The Science Fiction Century 1997-11-00 ed. David G. Hartwell Tor / BOMC 0-312-86338-1   1005 hc anth John Harris Checkmark
The Science Fiction Century 1998-05-00 ed. David G. Hartwell Quality Paperback Book Club 0-9658501-3-7 $21.95 1005 tp anth John Harris Checkmark
Beaker's Dozen 1998-08-00 Nancy Kress Tor 0-312-86537-6 $24.95 352 hc coll Thomas Canty Checkmark
Beaker's Dozen 1999-08-00 Nancy Kress Tor 0-312-86843-X $13.95 352 tp coll Thomas Canty Checkmark
Beggars in Spain 2000-07-00 Nancy Kress Fictionwise   $2.30   ebook chap Checkmark
The Hard SF Renaissance 2002-11-00 ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell Tor 0-312-87635-1 $39.95 960 hc anth Gregory Manchess Checkmark
The Hard SF Renaissance 2002-12-00 ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell Tor / SFBC #54747 $14.99 960 hc anth Gregory Manchess Checkmark
The Hard SF Renaissance 2003-10-00 ed. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer Orb 0-312-87636-X $21.95 960 tp anth Gregory Manchess Checkmark
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction: Volume Two 2004-00-00 ed. David G. Hartwell Robinson 1-84119-514-6 £7.99 xviii+
617 		tp anth Joe Roberts Checkmark
Novel Ideas-Science Fiction 2006-04-04 ed. Brian M. Thomsen DAW Books (DAW Collectors #1361) 0-7564-0353-7 $7.50 321 pb anth Checkmark
The Science Fiction Century, Volume Two 2006-10-00 ed. David G. Hartwell Orb 0-765-31492-4 $21.95 508 tp anth  
The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2007-02-06 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Griffin 0-312-36342-7 $19.95 xi+
642 		tp anth  
The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2007-02-06 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Press 0-312-36341-9 $40.00 672 hc anth  
The Best of the Best Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2007-02-06 ed. Gardner Dozois St. Martin's Griffin 1-4299-1606-0 $7.99   ebook anth  
The Mammoth Book of Best Short SF Novels 2009-04-00 ed. Gardner Dozois Robinson 978-1-84529-923-1 £9.99 xii+
800 		tp anth Joe Roberts Checkmark
Beggars in Spain 2011-10-15 Nancy Kress Phoenix Pick 978-1-61242-057-8 $4.99 98 tp chap Checkmark
L'une rêve, l'autre pas 2012-09-00 Nancy Kress ActuSF (Perles d'épice) 978-2-917689-42-4 €12.00 168 pb chap Prop4g4nd4 Checkmark
The Best of Nancy Kress 2015-10-00 Nancy Kress Subterranean Press 978-1-59606-721-9 $45.00 558 hc coll Tom Canty Checkmark
The Best of Nancy Kress 2015-10-00 Nancy Kress Subterranean Press 978-1-59606-722-6 $4.99   ebook coll Tom Canty  
Beggars in Spain 2017-02-03 Nancy Kress Phoenix Pick 978-1-61242-313-5 $6.99 154 tp chap  
Beaker's Dozen date unknown Nancy Kress Tor 978-1-4668-2527-7 $7.99   ebook coll Thomas Canty  
The Hard SF Renaissance date unknown ed. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer Orb 978-0-312-87636-4 $25.99 960 tp anth Gregory Manchess Checkmark
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