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2022 Prometheus ceremony with Wil McCarthy, Travis Corcoran, Heinlein Trust/Society leaders

Watch 2022 acceptance speeches by Wil McCarthy (Best Novel winner for Rich Man’s Sky) and by Heinlein Trust and Heinlein Society leaders (accepting for Robert Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy, inducted into the Prometheus Hall of Fame).
Plus, two-time Prometheus winner Travis Corcoran (Causes of Separation), Best Novel category presenter, gave a mythic-metaphoric speech about the decline of sf and the importance of libertarian science fiction; and LFS President William H. Stoddard, Hall of Fame presenter, explained why the Hall of Fame is important, why Citizen deserves a place in it and why the LFS has presented the Prometheus for 40 years.

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