IT’S NOT THE FIRST TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED… In August 2023, the winner of the Clarke Award was announced. Venomous Lumpsucker, Ned Beauman’s satirical take on scarcity, selfishness and species extinction, took the gong. It’s fair to say a few SF fans will have asked, “Who he?”
The short answer is that Beauman is an acclaimed literary novelist, who made Granta’s prestigious Best of Young British Novelists list in 2013. Even in an age when the barriers between publishing genres are far less rigid than in years
