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Recent Posts

  • Good news: The Prometheus Awards blog and LFS website have been ranked among the best libertarian blogs and websites of 2025
  • The best of the blog: Highlights of 2025, from two probing series to an unusually moving and stimulating 45th Prometheus Awards ceremony
  • The best of the blog: Our 2025 reviews of Prometheus winners, finalists and more

  • Best of the blog: A record year for posts, but also a sad one, in memoriam
  • Why the visionary and darkly satirical film Brazil, co-written by the late great Tom Stoppard, deserves a Prometheus nomination next year
  • Tom Stoppard, R.I.P.: The great playwright and screenwriter (Brazil) was also a “timid libertarian
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  • Hall of Fame Finalist Review: Adam Roberts’ Salt explores conflicting conceptions of freedom between neighboring anarchist and statist communities

  • Prometheus Hall of Fame news: Novels by James Blish, Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, Adam Roberts and Charles Stross selected as 2026 finalists
  • Review: Harry Turtledove’s Between the Rivers offers historical perspective on long-establish elements of emerging freedom and civilization
  • Prometheus finalist author Devon Eriksen releases audiobook of Theft of Fire (but what about the sequel?)

Top Posts

  • Author’s update: Two-time Prometheus winner Daniel Suarez launches publications of short stories and announces a 2025 novel and film adaptation plans
  • Good news: The Prometheus Awards blog and LFS website have been ranked among the best libertarian blogs and websites of 2025
  • “Rapport: - A new Martha Wells’ Murderbot story has just been published, free to read at Reactor
  • The right of self-defense: A.E. Van Vogt’s The Weapon Shops of Isher, the 2005 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • “Every Day is a Good Day” - Tom Jackson’s new book offers a 50th anniversary tribute to Robert Shea, co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the Prometheus-winning Illuminatus! trilogy
  • "Propertarians," anarchism, socialism and ambiguous utopias: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, the 1993 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner for Best Classic Fiction
  • Review: Lionel Shriver’s alternate-reality novel Should We Stay or Should We Go highlights how government paternalism, NHS bureaucracy, runaway inflation and other statist disasters make end-of-life decisions worse

Recent Comments

  • D. Jason Fleming on Tom Stoppard, R.I.P.: The great playwright and screenwriter (Brazil) was also a “timid libertarian
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  • John C.A. Manley on Review: Harry Turtledove’s Prometheus-nominated Powerless critiques communism and blind obedience to authority
  • John C.A. Manley on Best of the blog: A record year for posts, but also a sad one, in memoriam
  • Max More on Prometheus Hall of Fame news: Novels by James Blish, Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, Adam Roberts and Charles Stross selected as 2026 finalists

Archives

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  • Appreciations (182)
    • Alternate history (5)
    • Best Novels (52)
    • Comic works (22)
    • Fantasy (26)
    • Hall of Fame (Classic Fiction) (51)
    • Sequels (48)
    • Special Awards (12)
    • Young Adult Fiction (15)
  • Best of the Blog (10)
  • Essays (72)
    • Award Standards (18)
    • Award submissions (8)
    • Economics in fiction (8)
    • Reading tips (2)
  • Interviews (38)
  • News (478)
    • Author Updates (335)
      • Ayn Rand (23)
      • F. Paul Wilson (24)
      • George Orwell (30)
      • J. R. R. Tolkien (16)
      • James P. Hogan (17)
      • Ken MacLeod (20)
      • L. Neil Smith (31)
      • Michael Flynn (24)
      • Neal Stephenson (16)
      • Poul Anderson (42)
      • Ray Bradbury (19)
      • Robert Heinlein (66)
      • Sarah Hoyt (22)
      • Terry Pratchett (20)
      • Travis Corcoran (23)
      • Ursula K. Le Guin (12)
      • Vernor Vinge (29)
      • Victor Koman (13)
    • Awards history (42)
    • Awards News (138)
      • Award acceptance speech (32)
      • Award presenter speech (22)
    • Fiction in the news (71)
    • LFS programs (35)
    • LFS reports & updates (74)
    • Obits (27)
    • Podcasts (6)
    • Videos (11)
  • Reviews (164)
    • Book reviews (133)
    • Movies (13)
    • Selected Reviews (17)
  • Tributes (40)

Best of the Blog

  • Corruption of absolute power vs. the stateless Shire: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, the 2009 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner

  • Interview: LFS President William H. Stoddard on fandom, freedom, favorite novels and the power of language

  • Libertarian Futurist Society raises visibility at CoNZealand, the first all-online World Science Fiction Convention, with Prometheus-winning novelist F. Paul Wilson leading timely panel (watch it here!) on “Freedom in SF: Forty Years of the Prometheus Awards”

  • Action, passion, humor, mystery, sf, the evils of evasion & the liberating power of facing reality: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, a 1983 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner

  • The Libertarian Futurist Society, Prometheus Awards, LFS writers hailed in Quillette article about the persistence of libertarian sf as a key strand in mainstream science fiction

  • Interview: LFS founder Michael Grossberg on how he became a writer, critic, sf fan & helped save the Prometheus Awards

  • Interview: L. Neil Smith on his work, the Prometheus Award and his influences

  • Tor.com looks at the Prometheus Award on its 40th anniversary

  • What Do You Mean ‘Libertarian’? (and why Tolkien’s trilogy deserved its Prometheus)

  • Freedom in the Future Tense: A Political History of SF

Selected Reviews

  • Hall of Fame Finalist Review: Adam Roberts’ Salt explores conflicting conceptions of freedom between neighboring anarchist and statist communities


  • Hall of Fame Finalist Review: James Blish’s The Star Dwellers dramatizes core concepts of consent, contract and deal-making that make peace and freedom possible

  • Review: Harry Turtledove’s Prometheus-nominated Powerless critiques communism and blind obedience to authority

  • Hall of Fame Finalist Review: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World offers still-timely dystopian vision of a collectivist “soft tyranny” denying individuality, history, culture and art


  • Masterful social-scientific world-building in clash of cultures, including a libertarian society: An appreciation of Poul Anderson’s Orion Shall Rise, the 2025 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner


  • An epic social novel about conflicts and threats to liberty on a multi-generation interstellar colony ship: An Appreciation of Michael Flynn’s In the Belly of the Whale, the 2025 Best Novel winner

  • Hall of Fame finalist review: Charles Stross’ Singularity Sky offers cornucopia of cutting-edge SF and libertarian themes

  • Hall of Fame finalist review: “The Trees,” a fantasy-themed rock song by Rush, resonates as cautionary tale

  • Best Novel finalist review: Karl K. Gallagher’s Swim Among the People dramatizes heroic planetary resistance to an insidious totalitarian interstellar empire

  • Comedy, coming of age and forging freedom high above a gas-giant: An Appreciation of Dave Freer’s Cloud-Castles, the 2023 Prometheus Best Novel winner

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Libertarian Futurist Society launches new ad/outreach campaign with new Prometheus logo

The Libertarian Futurist Society is on the verge of launching in 2022 an exciting new ad and outreach campaign.

The purpose of the campaign will be two-fold: To raise the visibility of the LFS and the Prometheus Awards and to reach out to potential new members to join the LFS and help sustain the awards and our other programs.


The focus of the ad/outreach effort will be in two areas: print and online.

Continue reading Libertarian Futurist Society launches new ad/outreach campaign with new Prometheus logo

Posted on March 5, 2022March 5, 2022Author Michael GrossbergCategories LFS programs, LFS reports & updates, NewsTags ads, fire, Hayek, Hercules, LFS, logo, outreach, Prometheus, Prometheus Awards, Reason magazine, Rouger, The Genius of the West, titans5 Comments on Libertarian Futurist Society launches new ad/outreach campaign with new Prometheus logo
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