About Jay Lake Joseph Edward "Jay" Lake, Jr. was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 he was a quarterly first-place winner in the Writers of the Future contest. In 2004 he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. Books by Jay Lake METAtropolis by (author) Jay Lake, Tobias S. Buckell, Elizabeth Bear & Karl Schroeder read by John Scalzi, Michael Hogan, Scott Brick, Kandyse McClure, Alessandro Juliani & Stefan Rudnicki