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Today, The Los Angeles Timesannounced its finalists for its 41st annual L.A. Times Book Prizes, which includes the second year of the publication’s Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction.
This year’s finalists are:
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
The City We Became: A Novel (The Great Cities Trilogy, 1) by N. K. Jemisin
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, Polly Barton (translator)
The prize is administered by Ray Bradbury Literary Works, and “honors and extends Bradbury’s literary legacy by celebrating and elevating the writers working in his field today.” Bradbury’s family said in a statement that they were proud to sponsor the award: