The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes winners were announced April 21. Spear, Nicola Griffith’s “queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era,” earned The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction.

The other finalists in the category were:

• The Book of the Most Precious Substance by Sara Gran
• The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings
• The Mountain in the Sea: A Novel by Ray Nayler
• Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders

See the full list of LA Times Book Prize winners below.

BIOGRAPHY

• Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

FICTION

• Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid (translation by Sean Cotter)

GRAPHIC NOVELS/COMICS

• Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith, Wash Day Diaries

HISTORY

• Margaret A. Burnham, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners

MYSTERY/THRILLER

• Alex Segura, Secret Identity

POETRY

• Dionne Brand, Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION

• Aamina Ahmad, The Return of Faraz Ali

THE RAY BRADBURY PRIZE FOR SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & SPECULATIVE FICTION

• Nicola Griffith, Spear

YOUNG-ADULT LITERATURE

• Lyn Miller-Lachmann, Torch

CURRENT INTEREST

• Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America