To raise the visibility of the Prometheus Awards and reach out to recruit new members of the Libertarian Futurist Society, the LFS has created a new full-page ad, accented by our updated logo – just in time for the Seattle Worldcon.
The full-page ad, including a “bleed,” will appear in print in the Seattle Worldcon’s program book, to be distributed to all attendees during the Aug. 13-17 event at the Seattle Convention Center.
The ad copy was created by LFS board members Michael Grossberg and Charlie Morrison, with the design by Morrison.
Here is the full text of the ad, which was designed and adapted specifically with the World Science Fiction Convention’s general audience of SF/fantasy fans in mind:
Culture matters.
You can’t create a freer, better future without supporting arts and culture.
If you love liberty and sf/fantasy, then join the Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) and support the Prometheus Awards!
A nonprofit international network of freedom-loving sf/fantasy fans, the LFS sponsors the Prometheus Awards for pro-freedom speculative fiction and publishes reviews, essays, author’s updates and more on the LFS website’s Prometheus blog. We elieve cultural change is as vital as political change in achieving freedom and justice for all. After all, imagination is the first step in envisioning freer futures.
LFS members nominate works and choose annual winners for Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (the Prometheus Hall of Fame). The awards recognize outstanding works that dramatize the perennial conflict between Liberty and Power, favor cooperation over coercion, expose abuses of coercive government, critique or satirize authoritarian ideologies, and/or champion respect for individual rights as the foundation for peace, prosperity, progress, justice, tolerance, human dignity, civility and the flourishing of civilization itself.
“Prometheus Award… results are as remarkable as the award’s longevity. The LFS ranges far outside the borders of conventional American libertarian thought… with equally diverse selections on nominee lists. Following this particular award can be rewarding for readers of all stripes’
— ’40 Years of the Prometheus Award’” (TOR.com)
“Libertarian-leaning authors have had an outsized, lasting influence on the SF field… Unlike most ideologies that advocate forms of protectionism and Luddite restrictionism, the libertarian outlook values choice, freedom, a general openness to radical new ideas and an instinctive rejection of stale convention and custom.”
— “The Libertarian History of Science Fiction,” Quillette magazine (quillette.com)
“Uniquely among political movements, many of libertarianism’s most influential texts have been by SF writers.”
— The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Among Prometheus winners*: Hans Christian Andersen (“The Emperor’s New Clothes”), Poul Anderson (Trader to the Stars), Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451), Travis Corcoran (The Powers of the Earth), Cory Doctorow (Little Brother), Ursula K. Le Guin (The Dispossessed), Robert A. Heinlein (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress), Sarah Hoyt (Darkship Thieves), George Orwell (1984, Animal Farm), Terry Pratchett (Night Watch), Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, Anthem), L. Neil Smith (The Probability Broach), Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon), J.R.R.Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), Vernor Vinge (A Deepness in the Sky, “The Ungoverned,” “True Names”), and Kurt Vonnegut (“Harrison Bergeron”).
* Read our review-essay appreciations at www.lfs.org/blog/ describing how each of our 106 winners since 1979 fits our award and why they deserved recognition.
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Note: For more information about this year’s World Science Fiction Convention in Seattle, visit the Seattle Worldcon website.
ABOUT THE PROMETHEUS AWARDS AND THE LFS
* Join us! To help sustain the Prometheus Awards and support a cultural and literary strategy to appreciate and honor freedom-loving fiction, join the Libertarian Futurist Society, a non-profit all-volunteer association of freedom-loving sf/fantasy fans.
Libertarian futurists understand that culture matters. We believe that literature and the arts can be vital in envisioning a freer and better future. In some ways, culture can be even more influential and powerful than politics in the long run, by imagining better visions of the future incorporating peace, prosperity, progress, tolerance, justice, positive social change, and mutual respect for each other’s rights, human dignity, individuality and peaceful choices.
* Prometheus winners: For a full list of Prometheus winners, finalists and nominees – including in the annual Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame) categories and occasional Special Awards – visit the enhanced Prometheus Awards page on the LFS website. This page includes convenient links to all published essay-reviews in our Appreciation series explaining why each of more than 100 past winners since 1979 fits the awards’ distinctive dual focus on both quality and liberty.
* Watch videos of past Prometheus Awards ceremonies, Libertarian Futurist Society panel discussions with noted sf authors and leading libertarian writers, and other LFS programs on the Prometheus Blog’s Video page.
* Read “The Libertarian History of Science Fiction,” an essay in the international magazine Quillette that favorably highlights the Prometheus Awards, the Libertarian Futurist Society and the significant element of libertarian sf/fantasy in the evolution of the modern genre.
* Check out the Libertarian Futurist Society’s Facebook page for comments, updates and links to the latest Prometheus Blog posts.
