Venomous Lumpsucker

A story that is sort-of off-stage comical, which touches on serious topics of species extinction, habitat destruction, global warming, and so on. The positive: it takes the capitalist “credits” scheme and shows how it can be abused producing simply opposite results to the goal (A good antidote to Kim Stanley Robinson's naïveté on this topic.) I'm convinced Beauman is a realist, alas. Negative: it ends up with a rather tired trope (which I will refrain from elaborating on - for spoiler reasons) and 2 cliffhanger endings, which felt rather weak at the end.