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Ned Beauman: Venomous Lumpsucker (2023, Soho Press, Incorporated)

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author …

Probably my top book of the year

This is a bleak and satirical look into one possible future that seems all too real, but also still kind of hilarious, as our two main characters bounce around the world looking for any remaining examples of the Venomous Lumpsucker fish while encountering every kind of corporate strangeness that the concept of "environmental credits" has spawned. (Environmental credit: a parody of carbon credits such that you need at least three of them to be allowed to cause the extinction of a species during a project; seven if its proven to above a certain intelligence threshold.)