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Recent Posts

  • Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Hunger Games and other libertarian currents in science fiction and fantasy: Cato scholar Ilya Somin’s keynote speech at the 46th Prometheus Awards

  • The 46th Prometheus Awards: Raconteur Press’ Ian McMurtrie makes commitment to continue publishing stories of courage, self-reliance, resilience, honor and valor
  • Heinlein remembered at the LA Worldcon
  • Two-time Prometheus winner Travis Corcoran to release his first Aristillus novel in nearly a decade

  • The 46th Prometheus Awards: Trev Huxley’s Brave New World acceptance speech about our surveillance society and the ‘designer drug’ of social media
  • The 46th Prometheus Awards: Tessa Huxley on her grandfather Aldous Huxley and the relevance today of Brave New World, the 2026 Hall of Fame winner

  • The 46th Prometheus Awards: Dave Freer’s Storm-Dragon acceptance speech about reaching and inspiring young readers


  • The 46th Prometheus Awards: Special Awards presenter Travis Corcoran on wonder, adventure, liberty, culture and the vital need for Young Adult Fiction

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

  • The 46th Prometheus Awards: J. Kenton Pierce discusses good characters, conflicts and restrictions on liberty in his Best Novel acceptance speech for A Kiss for Damocles 


Top Posts

  • “The Emperor’s New Clothes” – Andersen’s fable remains a useful metaphor and illustrative lesson for today
  • New autobiography by Rush rock star Geddy Lee sheds light on the libertarian roots of the Canadian prog-rock band
  • Rabbit Test: Samantha Mill’s story, which swept this past year’s sf awards, has been hailed as libertarian (But that depends on your view of its central issue.)
  • Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime & memory holes: George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, a 1984 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner for Best Classic Fiction
  • Orwell’s 1984, Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and other Prometheus-recognized dystopian cautionary tales are popular again, post-election (but deserve a sober reading)
  • Freedom and free will in the welfare state: Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, the 2008 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • The Special Prometheus Award for YA fiction isn’t well-known yet, but that could change with the nomination of Dave Freer’s Storm-Dragon


Recent Comments

  • Max More on The 46th Prometheus Awards: Special Awards presenter Travis Corcoran on wonder, adventure, liberty, culture and the vital need for Young Adult Fiction

  • William H. Stoddard on A “Midsummer” tribute to Poul Anderson’s imagination (and a reminder of his range beyond his many Prometheus winners)

  • John A Arkansawyer on War, centralization, good intentions gone wrong: Poul Anderson’s “No Truce with Kings,” the 2010 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • John C.A. Manley on Review: The bulletproof philosophy of the double-Prometheus-winning V for Vendetta, and why the graphic novel is more insightful and pro-liberty than the vivid film

Archives

Categories

  • Appreciations (196)
    • Alternate history (5)
    • Best Novels (52)
    • Comic works (23)
    • Fantasy (26)
    • Hall of Fame (Classic Fiction) (53)
    • Sequels (49)
    • Special Awards (13)
    • Young Adult Fiction (24)
  • Best of the Blog (10)
  • Essays (111)
    • Award Standards (21)
    • Award submissions (11)
    • Dystopian/utopian literature (9)
    • Economics in fiction (10)
    • Literacy and liberty (5)
    • Prometheus winners on screen (11)
    • Reading tips (2)
    • Space exploration (4)
    • The psychology of authoritarianism (2)
  • Interviews (41)
  • News (567)
    • Author Updates (400)
      • Ayn Rand (33)
      • F. Paul Wilson (25)
      • George Orwell (44)
      • J. R. R. Tolkien (23)
      • James P. Hogan (17)
      • Ken MacLeod (21)
      • L. Neil Smith (33)
      • Michael Flynn (24)
      • Neal Stephenson (18)
      • Poul Anderson (47)
      • Ray Bradbury (25)
      • Robert Heinlein (77)
      • Sarah Hoyt (34)
      • Terry Pratchett (24)
      • Travis Corcoran (30)
      • Ursula K. Le Guin (15)
      • Vernor Vinge (31)
      • Victor Koman (14)
    • Awards history (50)
    • Awards News (175)
      • Award acceptance speech (42)
      • Award presenter speech (29)
      • Awards nominees (9)
    • Fiction in the news (94)
    • LFS programs (40)
    • LFS reports & updates (93)
    • Obits (29)
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    • Space exploration (3)
    • Videos (11)
  • Reviews (188)
    • Book reviews (149)
    • Movies (21)
    • Selected Reviews (21)
  • Tributes (49)

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

  • Review: Dave Freer’s Storm-Dragon offers Heinleinesque Young Adult tale of discovery, self-reliance and courage against abuses of power


  • Review: Karl K. Gallagher’s War by Other Means explores tensions between fighting to preserve freedom and giving up freedom to fight more effectively

  • Review: Sarah Hoyt’s No Man’s Land develops rich tapestry blending SF/fantasy tropes to imagine “first contact” with vast cultural, political and gender differences


  • Review: J. Kenton Pierce’s lively A Kiss for Damocles dramatizes how markets, evolving customs and laws help a post-apocalyptic colony recover without centralized authority


  • Hall of Fame Finalist Review: C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength dramatizes warring ideologies of good and evil, freedom and tyranny

  • 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


  • 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

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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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