Ned Beauman

Ned Beauman is a British novelist known for his satirical, baroque fiction. He won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Venomous Lumpsucker (2023), a darkly comic novel about a corporation attempting to circumvent global extinction law through ecological offset credits by eradicating the last of a species before it can be formally counted. Born in 1985 in London, Beauman studied at Oxford and Cambridge universities. His previous novels Boxer, Beetle; The Teleportation Accident; and Glow were critically praised for their wit, historical range, and stylistic experimentation. Venomous Lumpsucker was his first SF novel and was praised as a brilliant satire of capitalist environmental destruction. Beauman lives in London and continues to write fiction.