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Recent Posts

  • Libertarian sf authors Travis Corcoran, F. Paul Wilson to speak, present at the 2022 online Prometheus Awards ceremony
  • The 2022 Hugo nominations highlight a current Prometheus nominee
  • Billionaire blogger Bill Gates gives a thumbs up to a 2022 Best Novel finalist
  • Libertycon-related “indie” book sale includes pro-liberty sf, some Best Novel finalists
  • Rich Man’s Sky: Wil McCarthy’s Best Novel finalist imagines billionaire-led quest for private solar-system development
  • Seize What’s Held Dear: Karl Gallagher’s Best Novel finalist explores cultural clash of customs, battle for freedom against novel interstellar tyranny
  • A free (or very cheap) L. Neil Smith ebook from Arc Manor
  • Guess who: What world-famous billionaire reveals he’s a lifelong sf fan and counts Heinlein’s most libertarian novel among his favorites?
  • Klara and the Sun: Ishiguro’s Best Novel finalist offers hauntingly ambiguous tragedy about unrecognized agency, awareness and rights
  • The recurring Orwellian threat: Nineteen Eighty-Four, an early Prometheus Hall of Fame winner, sadly retains its relevance and resonance today

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

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  • R. H. Snow on The recurring Orwellian threat: Nineteen Eighty-Four, an early Prometheus Hall of Fame winner, sadly retains its relevance and resonance today

Archives

Categories

  • Appreciations (104)
    • Best Novels (46)
    • Hall of Fame (Classic Fiction) (46)
    • Special Awards (9)
    • Young Adult Fiction (11)
  • Best of the Blog (16)
  • Essays (25)
    • Award Standards (7)
  • Interviews (4)
  • News (116)
    • Author Updates (45)
    • Awards history (7)
    • Awards News (49)
      • Award acceptance speech (12)
    • LFS programs (11)
    • LFS reports & updates (16)
    • Obits (13)
    • Podcasts (3)
    • Videos (9)
  • Reviews (35)
    • Movies (3)
    • Selected Reviews (11)
  • Tributes (21)

Best of the Blog

  • The corruption of absolute power vs. the largely stateless Shire: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the 2009 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner

  • Interview: LFS President William H. Stoddard on fandom, freedom, favorite novels and the power of language

  • How does sf lend itself to exploring freedom & other ideas? Watch the NASFIC 2020 Prometheus Awards and “Visions of SF, Liberty & Human Rights” panel with authors Hoyt, Wilson; surprise guests Cherryh & Fancher; & LFS leaders

  • Libertarian Futurist Society raises visibility at CoNZealand, the first all-online World Science Fiction Convention, with Prometheus-winning novelist F. Paul Wilson leading timely panel (watch it here!) on “Freedom in SF: Forty Years of the Prometheus Awards”

  • Action, passion, humor, mystery, sf, the evils of evasion & the liberating power of facing reality: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, a 1983 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner

  • The Libertarian Futurist Society, Prometheus Awards, LFS writers hailed in Quillette article about the persistence of libertarian sf as a key strand in mainstream science fiction

  • 40th Anniversary Celebration: An Appreciation of No Award, the 1985 Prometheus Best Novel choice

  • A 40th Anniversary Retrospective: Introducing a Reader’s Guide to the Prometheus Award Winners

  • Interview: LFS founder Michael Grossberg on how he became a writer, critic, sf fan & helped save the Prometheus Awards

  • Interview: L. Neil Smith on his work, the Prometheus Award and his influences

  • Tor.com looks at the Prometheus Award on its 40th anniversary

  • What Do You Mean ‘Libertarian’?

  • Reason magazine on our fight over ‘The Dispossessed’

  • Futures in Collision: Firefly’s Divided Society

  • In memoriam Jack Vance: 1916 — 2013

  • Freedom in the Future Tense: A Political History of SF

Selected Reviews

  • Review: Lionel Shriver’s alternate-reality novel Should We Stay or Should We Go highlights how government paternalism, NHS bureaucracy, runaway inflation and other statist disasters make end-of-life decisions worse

  • Alternate history as a fruitful genre for re-imagining themes of Liberty versus Power: An Appreciation and Comparison of Harry Turtledove’s The Gladiator and Jo Walton’s Ha’Penny, co-winners of the 2008 Prometheus Award for Best Novel

  • Power, liberty, galactic intrigue and how markets tend to reduce inequality and bigotry: A 40th Anniversary Celebration and Appreciation of F. Paul Wilson’s Wheels within Wheels, the first Prometheus award winner in 1979

  • Back to the Moon: Lunar fiction from Heinlein to McDonald, Weir and Corcoran

  • Review: Avengers: Infinity War

  • Review: The Fractal Man by J. Neil Schulman

  • Review: Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

  • Review: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

  • Review: Arkwright by Allen Steele

  • Review: The Core of the Sun, by Johanna Sinisalo

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