Books by Ned Beauman
Venomous Lumpsucker: A Novel
by Ned Beauman
🏆 Winner of the 2023 Arthur C Clarke Award for Science Fiction
“This book is set in a near future where human-led environmental degradation and climate catastrophe are the central focus of the plot, and the eponymous Lumpsucker is just one of the many critically endangered species being ruthlessly traded for extinction credits (a tradable stock-like asset companies acquire specifically in order to legally cover themselves should their resource extraction terminate a species). If that brief description sounds brutal, I can only agree. This is a dark, satirical, deeply angry book about our species. It’s also eminently readable, oddly hopeful at times, and very, very funny. I’d be tempted to compare Ned Beauman’s humour here to our sci-fi satirist grandmaster Douglas Adams, or maybe, more specifically, his evil twin.” Read more...
The Best Science Fiction of 2023: The Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist
Tom Hunter, Journalist
Interviews where books by Ned Beauman were recommended
The Best Science Fiction of 2023: The Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist, recommended by Tom Hunter
Every year, the judges of the Arthur C Clarke Award select the best sci-fi novels of the previous twelve months. We asked prize director Tom Hunter to talk us through the six science fiction books that made the 2023 shortlist—including a space opera romance and a high-concept action thriller that has already won the most prestigious award in Francophone literature.