Nominations for 1989 Prometheus Awards Begin

The members of the Libertarian Futurist Society, in a preliminary process, have nominated ten novels for their 1989 Prometheus Award, and ten novels for their Hall of Fame.

The Prometheus Award nominees are: Brightsuit MacBear by L. Neil Smith, David’s Sling by Marc Stiegler, Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold, Farside Cannon by Roger MacBride Allen, Julian Solo by Shelly Rueben, William Gibson’s Mona Lisa Overdrive, Moon of Ice by Brad Linaweaver, John Shirley’s A Splendid Chaos, Robert A. Heinlein’s To Sail Beyond the Sunset, and Voice of the Whirlwind by Walter Jon Williams.

Nominated for the Hall of Fame are J. Neil Schulman’s Alongside Night, The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, Emphyrio by Jack Vance, Hanta Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill, Masters of Solitude by Parke Godwin and Marvin Kaye, Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, The Rolling Stones by Robert A. Heinlein, Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel and Charles Bailey II, Michael Moorcock’s The Steel Tsar, and We The Living by Ayn Rand.

The deadline for nominations is April 1st, the voting for finalists will be complete by June 15th, and the winners will be chosen when voting is over on August 1st.

The Prometheus Awards are presented every year at the World Science Fiction convention, which will be held this year in Boston. Prizes are a half-ounce coin for the Prometheus Award, and a one-eighth ounce coin for living Hall of Fame winners. The winners for both prizes get certificates.

The Libertarian Futurist Society was formed to promote fiction that demonstrates that freedom is both desirable and possible, and a future where humankind can not only survive but be happy.