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46th Prometheus Awards continue to garner wide attention


By Michael Grossberg

This year’s Prometheus Awards have received unusually wide attention in quite a few news stories, Substack columns and multiple postings on various websites and social media – including Instapundit and from X to Bluesky.

And the reports and comments are still coming, even in late September.

“Prometheus Stole Fire But Three Pro-Freedom Sci-fi Novelists Stole His Show” is the title of the latest column highlighting our latest awards.

Novelist John C.A. Manley even came up with a fresh composite image of our awards and several of our major speakers at the 46th awards ceremony for his latest column. Pictured left to right, rear: 2026 Special Award winner Dave Freer (Storm-Dragon), speaking from Tasmania Down Under; Pulitzer-winning writer Jack Miles; keynote speaker Ilya Somin; and left to right, front row: Aldous Huxley’s granddaughter Tessa Huxley and 2026 Best Novel winner J. Kenton Pierce (A Kiss for Damocles.)

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The 2026 Prometheus Awards: Watch the video on the LFS website’s Videos page

 

Keynote speaker Ilya Somin at the 46th Prometheus Awards ceremony (File photo)

Why do libertarian and anti-authoritarian themes emerge more strongly in SF and fantasy than other literary genres?

How important is Young Adult Fiction in inspiring the young to read and to better appreciate the values of civilization and the emerging modern liberal/libertarian order sustaining liberty and civility?

What inspired Dave Freer to write Storm-Dragon, recipient of the first Special Prometheus Award for Young Adult Fiction?

How do Aldous Huxley’s two grandchildren Tessa and Trev Huxley and Pulitzer-winning writer Jack Miles view the anti-authoritarian themes and timeliness today of Brave New World, the 50th work inducted into the Prometheus Hall of Fame?

What lessons has J. Kenton Pierce learned from winning his first Prometheus Award for Best Novel for A Kiss for Damocles?

These were among the questions explored and answered during the 46th Prometheus ceremony, now available to watch on the newly updated Videos page of the LFS website.

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Brave New World’s timely warning needed now: Huxley trustee Jack Miles’ acceptance speech for Aldous Huxley’s Hall of Fame winner


Jack Miles, co-trustee of the Aldous and Laura Huxley Trust (Photo courtesy of Miles)

Editor’s note: This is the text of the acceptance speech by Pulitzer-winning author Jack Miles, co-trustee of the Aldous and Laura Huxley Literary Trust, for Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the 2026 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner. Miles delivered a somewhat shorter speech Aug. 16, 2026, during the 46th Prometheus Awards ceremony.

By Jack Miles

Speaking for the Aldous and Laura Huxley Literary Trust, I am pleased to salute the Libertarian Futurist Society for awarding the Society’s Prometheus Award to Aldous Huxley’s dystopian masterpiece, Brave New World.

By imagining proleptically and prophetically just how far state control over society might go, Brave New World delivered a warning that is as needed now as it ever was. 

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The 46th Prometheus Awards: LFS co-founder Grossberg on the value of fiction dramatizing voluntarism and cooperation as the ethical and practical alternative to coercion

Editor’s note: LFS co-founder Michael Grossberg, who chairs the Prometheus Best Novel Judging Committee, presented the 2026 Prometheus Award for Best Novel to J. Kenton Pierce for A Kiss for Damocles. This is the first in a series of posts celebrating the 46th Prometheus Awards ceremony, with separate articles devoted to each Aug. 16 speech by winners and presenters.

By Michael Grossberg

Since the Prometheus Award was first presented in 1979, 47 books have won Best Novel. Today, we will honor a 48th.

One of the oldest fan-based sf/fantasy awards after the Hugos and Nebulas, the Prometheus Awards are distinctive in their dual focus on both liberty and literary quality. While quite a few Prometheus-winning works have also won Hugo and Nebula awards, only the Libertarian Futurist Society annually recognizes fantastical fiction that consistently champions respect for human rights – even for that smallest oppressed minority, the individual.

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By the numbers: The many reasons to watch the 46th Prometheus Awards ceremony this Sunday Aug. 16 on Zoom (here’s the link)



By Michael Grossberg

ONE Special Prometheus Award — the first for Young Adult Fiction.

TWO exciting guest speakers — leading libertarian thinker Ilya Somin, who will give the keynote speech on libertarian currents in SF/fantasy; and two-time Prometheus Best Novel winner Travis Corcoran (The Powers of the Earth, Causes of Separation), who will discuss the vital importance of Young Adult Fiction to encourage and inspire new generations of readers.

THREE Prometheus Awards — more than the usual annual two for Best Novel and the Prometheus Hall of Fame for Best Classic Fiction.

By the numbers alone, this Sunday’s 46th Prometheus Awards ceremony will be pretty special  – with more awards and far more interesting and inspiring speakers (10) than is typical at our annual awards ceremonies.

You can watch the roughly hourlong awards show, which is open to the public, by using this Zoom link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87824388418?pwd=CsoznF4wtlLNTYvEotlIpVJkCoGb9I.1

Please log in at 1 p.m. Sunday Aug. 16 Eastern time.

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