Venomous Lumpsucker

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author of The Teleportation Accident . The 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 mys