2022年7月12日 · Venomous Lumpsucker is set in a disturbingly plausible near future, ravaged by climate change and overrun by capitalist mega-corporations. With ecosystems collapsing all around, the world governments must take action in the only way they know how: by enforcing protocols and financial penalties.

2022年7月12日 · Across the dystopian landscapes of the 2030s—a nature reserve full of toxic waste; a floating city on the ocean; the hinterlands of a totalitarian state—Resaint and Halyard hunt for a surviving lumpsucker. And the further they go, the deeper they’re drawn into the mystery of the attack on the biobanks.

2022年7月12日 · Karin Resaint and Mark Halyard are concerned with one species in particular: the venomous lumpsucker, a small, ugly bottom-feeder that happens to be the most intelligent fish on the planet. Resaint is an animal cognition scientist consumed with existential grief over what humans have done to nature.

2022年7月5日 · Won’t you please open your heart and save the venomous lumpsucker? Beauman’s quirky techno-thriller unfolds in a bleakly believable near future ravaged by climate change and dominated by an unholy alliance between corporate capitalism and …

Karin Resaint and Mark Halyard are concerned with one species in particular: the venomous lumpsucker, a small, ugly bottom-feeder that happens to be the most intelligent fish on the planet. Resaint is an animal cognition scientist consumed with …

2023年6月13日 · Karin Resaint and Mark Halyard are concerned with one species in particular: the venomous lumpsucker, a small, ugly bottom-feeder that happens to be the most intelligent fish on the planet. Resaint is an animal cognition scientist consumed with existential grief over what humans have done to nature.

2023年5月4日 · Set in the strange landscapes of the 2030s, this gloriously plotted and darkly funny literary thriller sees a troubled conservationist and a disreputable mining executive team up to investigate a vile attack on the biobanks preserving remnants of species dying of extinction. Shortlisted for The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2023.

2024年2月23日 · Venomous Lumpsucker, by Ned Beauman, is set in a dystopic future where states and companies are issued “extinction credits,” in a bid to slow down the accelerating loss of biological diversity.

2022年7月19日 · When the eponymous lumpsucker, an unprepossessing bottom-dwelling fish, has its habitat destroyed due to a computer glitch, it’s revealed as central to financial crimes and complex ethical schemes, and Resaint and Halyard race around the globe looking for survivors.