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Recent Posts

  • Author update: Wil McCarthy writing sequels to Best Novel finalist Rich Man’s Sky
  • Author update: Karl K. Gallagher continues writing his Fall of the Censor series
  • Heinlein’s Children: Tom Jackson’s fanzine essay on libertarians in sf fandom
  • Meet the author: Lionel Shriver, a Prometheus Best Novel finalist for Should We Stay Or Should We Go
  • Meet the author: Wil McCarthy, a Best Novel finalist for Rich Man’s Sky
  • Meet the author: Karl K. Gallagher, a double Best Novel finalist for Between Home and Ruin and Seize What’s Held Dear
  • Meet the author: Nobel-Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro, a Best Novel finalist for Klara and the Sun
  • The 2022 Best Novel finalists reflect a few interesting “firsts”
  • Bruce Sommer, R.I.P. – Veteran Prometheus judge, board member helped sustain the LFS and its annual awards for decades
  • Christian libertarian novelist C.S. Lewis, a current Prometheus Hall of Fame finalist, receives attention in leading sf magazine

Top Posts

  • Review: The Mandibles: A Family 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
  • Interview: LFS President William H. Stoddard on fandom, freedom, favorite novels and the power of language
  • Interview (part 2): William Stoddard on the challenges, rewards and future of the Prometheus Hall of Fame
  • The right of self-defense and the limits to tyranny: A.E. Van Vogt’s The Weapon Shops of Isher, the 2005 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • SF anthology ‘Visions of Liberty’ imagines future worlds without government: Part Two of an Appreciation of the 2005 Special Prometheus Award winner
  • Interview: L. Neil Smith on his work, the Prometheus Award and his influences
  • Free trade, entrepreneurship and a swashbuckling merchant-hero: Poul Anderson’s Trader to the Stars, a 1985 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner

Recent Comments

  • R. H. Snow on Heinlein’s Children: Tom Jackson’s fanzine essay on libertarians in sf fandom
  • Jesse on Heinlein’s Children: Tom Jackson’s fanzine essay on libertarians in sf fandom
  • Tom Jackson on Heinlein’s Children: Tom Jackson’s fanzine essay on libertarians in sf fandom
  • Charlie Morrison on Rediscovery of the self amid post-apocalyptic primitivism: Ayn Rand’s dystopian Anthem, the 1987 Hall of Fame winner

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