The conflict results in a class struggle of ‘haves and have-nots’. In the long run, the ordinary humans seemed to lose the race with the much productive individuals, who is having a bonus of sleeping hours and much more added advantages. But those without any alterations, remained as sleepers. A few fortunate parents who could afford the expensive genetic engineering, was able to brought about a new generation of sleepless children with unique features. The first surmises on an ideal utopia of class-less society of unique economic equality, the second foresees a futuristic world of humans- less than or more than ‘humans.’ Nancy Kress’ Beggars in Spain is a typical science fiction which tells the negative impact of genetic engineering. Even though, seemingly divergent aspects, Marxian and Posthuman theory, both presumes a fictional world. Posthuman theory assumes that “the dividing line between human, non-human or the animal is highly permeable.” There is quite a good number of Science fictions that conjures up towards a posthuman future. When the divergent communities co-exist within the same planet, there arises a dissonance. Science fiction, in contrast, assumes a fictious world, not of humans alone, but of a macrocosm of living and non-living creatures including human, non-human or subhuman entities.
Marxism, discontent with the existing struggle between the haves and have-nots, envisages a classless society. It tells the struggle-some tale of races, aiming for power and prestige or for mere survival.
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