Prometheus Awards Ceremony Held at Con Jose

Kingsbury, McGoohan Honored

The Libertarian Futurist Society announced the Prometheus Awards for 2001 at Con Jose, the 2002 Worldcon, in a joint ceremony with the Sidewise Awards for alternate history. Fred C. Moulton, chair of the LFS'S Programming Committee, conducted the awards ceremony on behalf of the LFS.

Nominees for Best Novel of 2001 were Michael Flynn's Falling Stars; Donald Kingsbury's Psychohistorical Crisis; Karen Michalson's Enemy Glory; L. Neil Smith's The American Zone; and F. Paul Wilson's Hosts. Psycho-historical Crisis was chosen as best novel of 2*1. All five nominees were published by Tor Books, which took out a full page advertisement in the convention program book congratulating the nominees.

Nominees for the Hall of Fame were Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange; Robert A. Heinlein's short story "Requiem," Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here; Patrick McGoohan's television series "The Prisoner" and J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings. The award went to "The Prisoner."

See pages 5-7 of this issue for details.