The Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction is an award presented each year to outstanding works of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction. Established in 2019, the award is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was originally named the "Ray Bradbury Prize" in honor of American speculative fiction writer Ray Bradbury (1920–2012).. However, in 2024 the Ray Bradbury Foundation stopped sponsoring the award after a change of ownership in Bradbury's estate."44th Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists" by Mike Glyer, File 770, February 21, 2024.
Recipients +Prize winners and finalistsYearAuthorTitlePublisherResult2019Black Leopard, Red WolfRiverhead BooksWinnerExhalation: StoriesAlfred A. KnopfFinalist Retrieved 2026-05-02. and Max GladstoneThis is How You Lose the Time WarSaga PressFinalistSong for the Unraveling of the WorldCoffee HouseFinalistHogarth PressFinalist2020Saga PressWinnerPiranesiBloomsbury PublishingFinalistLakewoodAmistad PressFinalistOrbit BooksFinalist, by Polly Barton Where the Wild Ladies AreSoft SkullFinalist2021Spirits Abroad: StoriesSmall Beer PressWinnerLight From Uncommon Stars Tor BooksFinalist, by Megan McDowell Hogarth PressFinalistRedhook BooksFinalistSorrowland MCDFinalist2022SpearTor BooksWinnerDreamland BooksFinalistRedhook BooksFinalistMCDFinalistLiberation Day: Stories Random HouseFinalist2023Saga PressWinnerWhalefallSimon & SchusterFinalistLone WomenOne WorldFinalistTor BooksFinalistJewel Box: StoriesErewhon Finalist2024Random HouseWinner Jedediah Berry Tor Books Finalist Viking Books FinalistAbsolutionMCDFinalist Tordotcom Publishing Finalist2025 LuminousSimon & Schuster Winner"L.A. Times Book Prize honorees named — many celebrate resistance: 'When people rise, empires always fall'" by Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2026. Saga Press Finalist Lethe Press FinalistDeath of the AuthorWilliam MorrowFinalistEsperanceDAW BooksFinalist
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