{"product_id":"venomous-lumpsucker-paperback","title":"Venomous Lumpsucker - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNed Beauman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Teleportation Accident\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples, from which lost organisms might someday be resurrected . . . But then, one day, it's all gone. A mysterious cyber-attack hits every biobank simultaneously, wiping out the last traces of the perished species. Now we're never getting them back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. Halyard is an exec from the extinction industry, complicit in the mining operation that destroyed the lumpsucker's last-known habitat. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. Who was really behind it? And why would anyone do such a thing? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Virtuosic and profound, witty and despairing, \u003ci\u003eVenomous Lumpsucker\u003c\/i\u003e is Ned Beauman at his very best.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNed Beauman\u003c\/b\u003e, who was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, is the author of \u003ci\u003eBoxer, Beetle\u003c\/i\u003e (shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and winner of the Goldberg Prize for Outstanding Debut Fiction); \u003ci\u003eThe Teleportation Accident\u003c\/i\u003e (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award); \u003ci\u003eGlow\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMadness Is Better than Defeat\u003c\/i\u003e. Beauman has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, and various other publications. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 13, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53457603166515,"sku":"9781641294843","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/EK1lRRlDqc9781641294843.webp?v=1781503102","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/venomous-lumpsucker-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}