Editor's Corner

Award news

This year's Prometheus and Hall of Fame Awards will be presented at the Worldcon in Los Angeles, August 28. Exact date and place of the Awards has not yet been set.

There is currently a rough proposal before LFS to change the name of the Hall of Fame Award in honor of a famous writer. The same proposal suggests expanding the Awards to include short fiction. It is too early to provide any details, but this proposal will be submitted to the membership of LFS for consideration later this year

Call for help

LFS is seeking volunteers to help with Prometheus and to expand the role and visibility of LFS. One key area for the newsletter is Art Director, soliciting and finding, or creating cover art and stand-alone interior images for the issues. I would like to see less text on the cover and more science fiction. Once the issue expands beyond its current eight-page format, we will have more room for creative art and design.

One other neglected area of libertarian fiction is the pages of Prometheusand the Prometheus Awards, has been short fiction. During the founding of LFS in 1982, there was discussions of creating an award for short fiction. This never progressed beyond discussions and proposals. Since that time the issue has surfaced again and again, but little mention of short fiction has been made in Prometheus. To attempt to remedy this, LFS is looking for one or more volunteers as Short Fiction Review Editor(s).

The task of this editor or editors will be to read fiction magazines and write brief mentions of stories of interest to libertarians. Reviews of classic short fiction also are welcome. For examples of these stories, I present the following far from complete list of short stories I think libertarians will find interesting:

F. Paul Wilson, “Lipidleggin'” and “Green Winter”; A.E. Van Vogt, “The Weapon Shop”; Jack Vance, “Dodkin's Job”; Harlan Ellison, “Repent, Harlequin! Said the Tick-Tock Man”; Vernor Vinge, “The Ungoverned” and “True Names”; William Tenn, “The Liberation of Earth”; Ray Bradbury, “Usher II” and “The Pedestrian”; Frank Kafka, “An Old Manuscript” and “In the Penal Colony”; Brad Linaweaver, “Clutter”; Poul Anderson, “Sam Hall” and “No Truce With Kings”; Barry N. Malzberg, “Conversations at Lothar's”; Øyvind Myhre, “Bull Running's War”; and Robert Sheckley, “Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay”.

Apologies to Vin Suprynowicz and William Stoddard, for bumping their reviews to the July issue. That issue also will tentatively reprint a non-fiction essay by L. Neil Smith.