Venomous Lumpsucker

Name: Venomous Lumpsucker
ISBN: 9781529416596

by Ned Beauman

Arthur C. · 2023 · Winner

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SceptreAugust 11, 2022Science Fiction & FantasyISBN 9781529416596

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Arthur C. Clarke Award	2023	Winner	“Ned Beauman's satirical ecological SF won for its scathing wit, its precise anatomization of capitalist greenwashing, and its blackly comic vision of a world where extinction has become a tradeable commodity.”

About This Book

In a near-future world of rampant extinction, two professionals in the ecological offset industry discover that the Venomous Lumpsucker fish—which they thought was already extinct—may still exist, in this darkly comic Clarke winner.

About the Author

Ned BeaumanGB

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. Read more →