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2023 Prometheus ceremony with Best Novel presenter Sarah Hoyt, Australian Dave Freer accepting Best Novel for Cloud-Castles; Heinlein Trust/Society reps accepting Best Classic Fiction for Heinlein story “Free Men”

The 2023 Prometheus ceremony offered inspiration, humor, sobering truths and rich insights about sf, liberty, history, culture, liberty and current authoritarian trends.
Speakers: Australian Dave Freer (Best Novel winner, Cloud-Castles); past winner/presenter Sarah Hoyt (Darkship Thieves); Heinlein Society’s John Tilden, Heinlein Trust’s Art Dula (accepting Hall of Fame for Heinlein’s story “Free Men”) discuss his legacy and reveal excerpts from a 1947 archived letter about his vision of the future.
LFS president Bill Stoddard discusses the cycles of freedom and reaction, passing and new generations of Prometheus winners, and co-founder Michael Grossberg, addresses the nature of the State and Best Novel category.

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Michael Grossberg, who founded the LFS in 1982 to help sustain the Prometheus Awards, has been an arts critic, speaker and award-winning journalist for five decades. Michael has won Ohio SPJ awards for Best Critic in Ohio and Best Arts Reporting (seven times). He's written for Reason, Libertarian Review and Backstage weekly; helped lead the American Theatre Critics Association for two decades; and has contributed to six books, including critical essays for the annual Best Plays Theatre Yearbook and an afterword for J. Neil Schulman's novel The Rainbow Cadenza. Among books he recommends from a libertarian-futurist perspective: Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist & How Innovation Works, David Boaz's The Libertarian Mind and Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress.

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