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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:
Book World: King s latest showcases his special power
Stephen Graham Jones, The Washington Post
March 1, 2021
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Does anybody write kids-with-strange-powers better than Stephen King? And, is there anyone on the scene who has more insider knowledge of the publishing industry? Later, King s third Hard Case Crime installment, threads both of these into a single short novel that packs a punch.
Jamie is a kid who can see dead people, and his single mom is a literary agent willing to do whatever she has to in order to keep bread on the table, never mind the literary ethics. Before you get nervous that this is that same The Sixth Sense dynamic we all know and sort of love, sort of dread, Jamie, our narrator, is well aware of M. Night Shyamalan s 1999 film. More importantly, King seems aware that The Sixth Sense is basically a superhero origin story: A kid figures out his powers, looks around, and then tries to make the world a better place.