Venomous Lumpsucker

WINNER of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2023

By: Ned Beauman

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Hardcover | 14 July 2022 | Edition Number 1

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*SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE YEAR*

'A novel that delights, dazzles and moves in equal measure' Financial Times

'Brutally satirical and grimly hilarious' Daily Mail

The irresistible new novel by the Booker-longlisted author Ned Beauman - a darkly funny and incisive zoological thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion.

The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might already be extinct. Nobody knows. And nobody cares. Except for two people.

Mining executive Mark Halyard has a prison cell waiting for him if that fish has gone for good. And biologist Karin Resaint needs it for her own darker purposes. They don't trust each other, but they're left with no choice but to team up, pursuing the lumpsucker across the strange landscapes of near-future Europe. On the way, they are drawn into a conspiracy far bigger than one ugly little fish.

Gripping and singular, Venomous Lumpsucker is a comedy about environmental devastation that asks: do we have it in us to avert the tragedy of mass extinction?

And also: do we really need to bother?

'A hilarious, terrifying novel in which Ned Beauman captures brilliantly the contradictory blend of urgency, paralysis, panic and resignation the climate emergency and its attendant mass extinctions inspire' Chris Power

Industry Reviews

Beauman has a gift: he's a natural comic writer. - Guardian

Beauman's writing is dazzlingly inventive. - The Times

I love Ned Beauman's novels - Philip Hensher

A singular and almost recklessly gifted, young writer

- Time

Reminded me of a Coen brothers film . . . I found it enchanting. - BBC Radio 4 Saturday Review on Madness is Better Than Defeat

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