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Recent Posts

  • Making ‘em laugh for the sake of liberty: Which Best Novel winners best incorporate comedy?
  • Funny is funny: How two Best Novel finalist authors have responded to Prometheus recognition
  • A poet of liberty? How Shakespeare upheld and advanced our appreciation of liberty and wariness about unlimited authority
  • A 2022 Prometheus Best Novel finalist heads to the silver screen
  • Check out (and share!) the new LFS introductory flyer
  • Appreciating sf author Nancy Kress, her Beggars trilogy and other Prometheus-nominated novels
  • Review: Nancy Kress novel The Eleventh Gate imagines pros, cons & conflicts of future libertarian, authoritarian worlds
  • Lord of the Rings: Economist uses Prometheus Hall of Fame classic to expose false complaints about capitalism – and about Tolkien’s underappreciated Eagles
  • Orwell’s 1984 vs Huxley’s Brave New World: Which fictional dystopia seems more timely today?
  • Eris, the dwarf planet and goddess, and Illuminatus!

Top Posts

  • Liberty, evolving self-government and the Rights of Man: C.J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher’s Alliance Rising, the 2020 Prometheus winner for Best Novel
  • Best wishes for recovery to sf authors F. Paul Wilson and Gregory Benford, both recuperating from strokes
  • Making ‘em laugh for the sake of liberty: Which Best Novel winners best incorporate comedy?
  • Freedom and free will in a dystopian welfare-state: Anthony Burgess’ darkly humorous A Clockwork Orange, the 2008 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • A 2022 Prometheus Best Novel finalist heads to the silver screen
  • Fans respond in inspiring way to Prometheus-winning author Sarah Hoyt’s call for help during a difficult transition
  • Cryptology, privacy, and a free society's adaptability: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, the 2013 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner

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Best of the Blog

  • The best of the blog: Six posts to savor from 2022 (about Bujold, Heinlein, Longyear, McCarthy and more)

  • 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’? (and why Tolkien’s trilogy deserved its Prometheus)

  • Reason magazine on our fight over ‘The Dispossessed’

  • Futures in Collision: Firefly’s Divided Society

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

Selected Reviews

  • A Study in Subtexts: Freedom, slavery and control in Prometheus winner Lois McMaster Bujold’s Sharing Knife series

  • 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: The Mandibles: A Family 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver

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Tag: outreach

Libertarian Futurist Society launches new ad/outreach campaign with new Prometheus logo

The Libertarian Futurist Society is on the verge of launching in 2022 an exciting new ad and outreach campaign.

The purpose of the campaign will be two-fold: To raise the visibility of the LFS and the Prometheus Awards and to reach out to potential new members to join the LFS and help sustain the awards and our other programs.


The focus of the ad/outreach effort will be in two areas: print and online.

Continue reading Libertarian Futurist Society launches new ad/outreach campaign with new Prometheus logo

Posted on March 5, 2022March 5, 2022Author Michael GrossbergCategories LFS programs, LFS reports & updates, NewsTags ads, fire, Hayek, Hercules, LFS, logo, outreach, Prometheus, Prometheus Awards, Reason magazine, Rouger, The Genius of the West, titans5 Comments on Libertarian Futurist Society launches new ad/outreach campaign with new Prometheus logo
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