18 must-read science fiction books like Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman

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Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

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

"I can’t believe this!"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there at all."

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

If you liked the science fiction plot in Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. Infinite Ground

By: Martin MacInnes

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A luminous debut novel of modern alienation, of the sinister beauty of the human body and of the en… read more

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2. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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3. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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4. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

5. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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6. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

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

Similar categories in Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • humor
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • climate change
  • climate change fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"I can’t believe this!"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

Cover of Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) by M.R. Carey

8. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

By: M.R. Carey

4.17

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

 From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Airside

By: Christopher Priest

3.27

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood actress Jeanette Marchand was beautiful, talented, beloved by audiences. During a time … read more

Similar categories in Christopher Priest's Airside book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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10. Prophet

By: Sin Blaché

3.68

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new … read more

Similar categories in Sin Blaché's Prophet book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"He looks at Rao. Turns in his seat and looks. Sunil Rao, bane of Adam's career, world saver, royal pain in the ass, and genuinely the love of Adam's life."

-Sin Blaché, Prophet

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11. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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12. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Tusks of Extinction book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

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13. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • humor
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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15. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Cover of Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks) by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

17. Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks)

By: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

4.50

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean’s Marshall Islands from being dev… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner's Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks) book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • climate change
  • adult
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18. Plutoshine

By: Lucy Kissick

3.88

Format: 410 pages, Hardcover

Terraforming - the megascale-engineering of a planet's surface to one more Earth-like - is now comm… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Kissick's Plutoshine book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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19. The Coral Bones

By: E.J. Swift

4.11

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

This is what it looks like when coral dies. Present day. Marine biologist Hana Ishikawa is racin… read more

Similar categories in E.J. Swift's The Coral Bones book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • climate change fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction
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20. Conquest

By: Nina Allan

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Rachel's boyfriend Frank is different from other people. His strangeness is part of what she loves … read more

Similar categories in Nina Allan's Conquest book and Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction

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Martha Wells

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