Join Us at LFSCon!

It's not too late to make plans to attend LFScon, the Libertarian Futurist Society's first national conference and 20th anniversary celebration. Meet and socialize with other libertarian sf fans from across the country at LFScon, one of the few libertarian conferences whose primary focus will be cultural rather than political and whose primary purpose will be to have fun!

LFScon's program track and our Prometheus Hall of Fame award ceremony will be the centerpiece of Marcon 36, which will run from 4 p.m. Friday, May 25 to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 27, 2001, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio.

J. Neil Schulman is the latest to join the slate of Prometheus Award-winning guests of honor, whihc includdes Special FLScon Guest L. Nei Smith, Poul Anderson, F. Paul Wilson, James Hogan, Vernor Vinge, Brad Linaweaver, and Victor Milán.

Recently added to the schedule: An Interview with Poul Anderson. Prometheus Editor William H. Stoddard will interview the grand master of libertarian science fiction on Sunday morning, just after the annual membership meeting, where you can meet the LFS Board of Directors.

Confirmed LFSCon track panels: "Heinlein's Children: The Libertarian Writers of SF"; "Will the Future be More or Less Free?"; "Tolerance and Open-Mindedness: How SF Can Promote a Better World"; "Intelligent Self Defense, The Second Amendment, and the High-Tech Weaponry of the Future"; "The Internet and the First Amendment's Electronic Frontiers"; "Cloning and Artificial Intelligence: The Freedom Issues"; "Uplift Technology and Alien Rights: Freedom for the Self-Aware"; "Required Here, Censored There: Literature From Harry Potter to the Internet: Who Decides When, Where, and Why?" "Who Wants to be a Zillionaire in Space? A Free Market Approach to Exploring, Industralizing, and Colonizing the Solar System"; and "Illuminati!—Conspiracies Real and Imagined, or Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They're Not Out to Get You."

Other Marcon panels of interest: "Designing Alien Worlds," with LFS member/anthropologist Lynn Maners; a Mars slide show with sf novelist/LFS member Steve Burgauer; and "Shared Worlds: Writing for Star Wars, Star Trek, Sliders, Conan, Wild Cards, and Other Fictional Universes" with Smith, Linaweaver and Milan joining Marcon GoH Robert Jordan.

Deadline is May 10 to preregister for LFSCon through the LFS and receive all of the special benefits available to LFS members and their fami lies and friends.

Basic LFSCon registration ($75/ person, or $90/person after May 10) includes admission to all LFScon and Marcon activities— including the LFS' Friday night party and Saturday night cheesecake dessert reception honoring our Prometheus Awardwinners. Basic registrations include $10 worth of free merchandise and an extra 10% discount off May 27 purchases at the LFS book-CD-sticker-button-T-shirt tables in the Marcon dealer's room.

Sponsoring LFSCon registration ($140/person, or $160/person after May 10) includes all the Basic benefits, plus admission to a catered Hyatt Regency dinner party Saturday with LFSCon/ Marcon leaders and major guests. LFSCon Sponsors will receive an autographed copy of a recent book by Smith or Wilson and an additional $10 worth of free merchandise at the LFS "bookstore" (which will offer about 300 new book titles, including libertarian sf, general sf/fantasy, and libertarian nonfiction bestsellers.)

Send checks (made out to LFS) with your contact info (name, guests' names, address, E-mail, phone) to Michael Grossberg, 3164 Plymouth Place, Columbus, OH 43213. For more information, check out the latest LFScon schedule updates and speakers' bios on the LFS website,