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SF writer Travis Corcoran (The Powers of the Earth, Causes of Separation) on cultural formation & the morality of freedom vs. coercion, and Vonnegut story inducted into Hall of Fame in 2019 Prometheus Awards at Dublin Worldcon

Sample excerpt from Travis Corcoran’s 2019 acceptance speech:
“The Prometheus Award is not merely recognition. It’s incentive… recognition by a community is a huge incentive” Corcoran said.

Travis Corcoran wins his first Prometheus Award Photo: Courtesy of author

“Libertarianism is absolutely correct in its magisteria about the morality of freedom versus coercion…, but we need other theories to augment it,” Corcoran aid.

“We must turn our attention to other topics, like culture formation and culture subversion.”

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Michael Grossberg

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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