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How ‘Factorio’ seduced Silicon Valley — and me

Oct 25, 2024 | ft.com | Ned Beauman

In Factorio, from the Czech developer Wube Software, you have crash-landed on an alien planet and your task is to build a rocket so you...
Venomous Lumpsucker - Ned Beauman (Buch) – lesen.de

Oct 13, 2024 | lesen.de | Ned Beauman |Philippe Besson |Sally Rooney |Richard Powers

The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-longlisted, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman - a speculative literary thriller for the age of Extinction Rebellion that is as laugh-out-loud funny as it is serious in its message. The near future. With tens of thousands of species dying out every year, our last hope is the biobanks, impregnable vaults where their remnants can be preserved forever. Until one day an audacious cyberattack obliterates every single one.
Science|Business’s summer reads of 2024

Aug 1, 2024 | sciencebusiness.net | Ned Beauman |Thomas Kuhn

So you’ve escaped Brussels (or Berlin, or Paris, or Warsaw…), and are finally lying on the beach with an ice cold Mythos in hand. Research and innovation is, quite understandably, the last thing you want think about right now. But when you’ve at long last finished the latest Elena Ferrante, or squinted through Season 2 of House of the Dragon with the ocean in the background, thoughts might drift back to work.
British Art Show 7

Jan 12, 2024 | frieze.com | Ned Beauman

Caoimhín Mac Giolla LéithA critic, curator and Senior Lecturer in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore & Linguistics at University College Dublin. The suggested route for those attending the press launch of British Art Show 7, subtitled ‘In the Days of the Comet’, prescribed an early encounter with one of the exhibition’s – and this year’s – showstopping works.
"Oh my god look at its little face!"

Oct 3, 2023 | nedbeauman.blogspot.com | Ned Beauman

Rick Owens SS24 Lido at Paris Fashion WeekOff the back of my interview about Rick Owens in the Financial Times I managed to score an invitation to his womenswear show at Paris Fashion Week.
Laura Jean McKay & Ned Beauman in conversation with Lauren Beukes

Sep 22, 2023 | waterstones.com | Laura McKay |Ned Beauman

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"Oh my god look at its little face!"

Jun 13, 2023 | nedbeauman.blogspot.com | Ned Beauman

JAPAN, MAY 2023Arrival I have conquered nature. I have trampled the laws of earth and heaven. I have stared God in the face and laughed. By this I mean that I managed to get from London to Tokyo without any jetlag. None. None! On my first morning there I woke up refreshed at 7am local time after exactly eight hours’ sleep. Although this was my first flight in nearly five years, I remain a jetlag obsessive, and so nothing could be more satisfying to me than peerless triumph.
Ned Beauman: ‘After reading Terry Pratchett, it feels like something is missing from most fiction’

Feb 10, 2023 | theguardian.com | Ned Beauman

My earliest reading memoryUnfortunately my memory for this kind of thing is a complete blank, so I’ve decided to manufacture an incident where my copy of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow had to be confiscated from me at preschool because I was having too many insights about it.
‘Venomous Lumpsucker’ · LRB 2 February 2023

Jan 25, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Ned Beauman |Ben Walker

In Le Désordre AZERTY (2014), a collection of writings based on the layout of a French computer keyboard, the novelist Éric Chevillard wrote:Ned Beauman can’t go without. His fifth novel, Venomous Lumpsucker, is full of the language of animal life. Several characters play word games with the names of species – see the genetically engineered ‘yayflies’. The monosyllabic bluntness of the word ‘fish’ is deployed comedically on more than one occasion.