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Venomous lumpsucker
- Title
- Venomous lumpsucker / Ned Beauman.
- Author
- Beauman, Ned
- Publication
- New York, NY : Soho Press, Inc., [2022]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 23-70 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 327 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "It's the near future, and tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. The loss is not total, though: the DNA sequences of many species are being digitized and uploaded to a global network of "biobanks," together with brain and body scans, recordings of behavior in the wild, microbiota profiles, and so forth, in the hope that the extinct victims of humanity's destructiveness might one day be resurrected. Then comes the day when the biobanks are hit by a mysterious worldwide cyberattack. Karen 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. Karen is an animal cognition scientist consumed with existential grief over what humans have done to nature. Mark is a jaded corporate "Environmental Impact Coordinator" connected to the mining operation that wiped out the lumpsucker's last known habitat. This unlikely duo is left with no choice but to team up in search of the fish through the bizarre, dystopian landscapes of the 2030s-a nature reserve full of toxic waste; a migrant labor camp ravaged by a fungal disease; a floating city on the Baltic Sea; the dangerous hinterlands of a totalitarian state. 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? Virtuousic, profound, and effervescently despairing, Venomous Lumpsucker is Ned Beauman at his very best"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Black humor.
- Dystopian fiction.
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-70
- ISBN
- 9781641294126
- 1641294124
- LCCN
- 2021061290
- 40031246110
- OCLC
- 1275428676
- Author
- Beauman, Ned, author.
- Title
- Venomous lumpsucker / Ned Beauman.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Soho Press, Inc., [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40031246110
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-70