Venomous Lumpsucker
WINNER of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2023
(Sprache: Englisch)
Laugh-out-loud funny, with a page-turning plot, Venomous Lumpsucker is a speculative literary thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion.
Laugh-out-loud funny, with a page-turning plot, Venomous Lumpsucker is a speculative literary thriller for the...
Laugh-out-loud funny, with a page-turning plot, Venomous Lumpsucker is a speculative literary thriller for the...
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Laugh-out-loud funny, with a page-turning plot, Venomous Lumpsucker is a speculative literary thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion. Laugh-out-loud funny, with a page-turning plot, Venomous Lumpsucker is a speculative literary thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion.
The near future. With tens of thousands of species dying out every year, our last hope is the biobanks, impregnable vaults where their remnants can be preserved forever. Until one day an audacious cyberattack obliterates every single one.
In the aftermath, a troubled conservationist and a crooked mining exec must team up in search of the venomous lumpsucker, a lost fish that they both desperately need to save. Together, they pursue it through the weird landscapes of the 2030s - a nature reserve full of toxic waste; a floating city on the Baltic Sea; the dangerous hinterlands of a totalitarian state. And the further they go, the deeper they're drawn into the mystery of the attack on the biobanks. Who was behind it? And why would anyone do such a thing?
Autoren-Porträt von Ned Beauman
Ned Beauman is the author of Boxer, Beetle, winner of the Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction Book and the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction; The Teleportation Accident, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and a Somerset Maugham Award; and the highly acclaimed Glow and Madness is Better Than Defeat. He lives in London.www.nedbeauman.co.uk
www.nedbeauman.blogspot.co.uk
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ned Beauman
- 2022, 304 Seiten, Maße: 14,9 x 23 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Sceptre
- ISBN-10: 1473613566
- ISBN-13: 9781473613560
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.08.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
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A comic caper about our insanely decadent world careering through ecocide, Venomous Lumpsucker is bracingly, excoriatingly funny on our idiocy and the unquantifiable loss that we enable. It's also savagely, forensically serious on the reality of mass species loss, as illuminating as it is entertaining. It reads like P. G. Wodehouse crashing into Philip K. Dick, with a touch of Iain M. Banks. Of course, it's smart and timely, but the writing is often very beautiful, and the ideas and their implications vertiginous. Martin Macinnes, author of INFINITE GROUND
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