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Part Ballard and Delillo, part Wodehouse and Waugh, a wry and moving story of environmental collapse and the end of civilization from the Booker-listed author of The Teleportation Accident.
It's the near future, and tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. The good news is that their remnants are being digitally preserved for possible resurrection, until one day when the collections are all destroyed in 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 an unscrupulous corporate executive responsible for the mining operation that has accidentally destroyed 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 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?
It's the near future, and tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. The good news is that their remnants are being digitally preserved for possible resurrection, until one day when the collections are all destroyed in 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 an unscrupulous corporate executive responsible for the mining operation that has accidentally destroyed 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 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?
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