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Recent Posts

  • Why we post articles about references in popular and elite culture to Prometheus-winning classics, from Orwell’s 1984 to Anderson’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes”

  • 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

  • The newest Prometheus Award: A Special Award for Young Adult fiction – and why it’s important to encourage younger generations to read books
  • What leading libertarian theorist and novelist David Friedman thinks of Lois McMaster Bujold, L. Neil Smith, J. Neil Schulman, Robert Heinlein and other Prometheus-winning authors

  • Why leading economist, libertarian theorist and novelist David Friedman admires Prometheus winner C.J. Cherryh

  • Sequels, part 11: Unlike literary sequels, movie sequels and genre films don’t get as much respect at the Oscars, but that may be changing

  • Sequels, part 10: Like the Prometheus Awards, the Hugo awards often recognize sequels – including many of the same novels and authors
  • Sequels, part 9: By the numbers, Prometheus Awards history is full of Best Novel sequels
  • Review: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World offers still-timely dystopian vision of a collectivist “soft tyranny” denying individuality, history, culture and art

  • “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

Top Posts

  • Isolation, dystopia and collapse: E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops, the 2012 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • R.I.P., Prometheus Awards judge Jeff Schulman remembered for his dedication, brilliance, kindness
 and passion for liberty
  • Why we post articles about references in popular and elite culture to Prometheus-winning classics, from Orwell’s 1984 to Anderson’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes”

  • “Rapport: - A new Martha Wells’ Murderbot story has just been published, free to read at Reactor
  • Review: Sacrifice and survival in the film Avengers: Infinity War
  • New autobiography by Rush rock star Geddy Lee sheds light on the libertarian roots of the Canadian prog-rock band
  • 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

  • Max More on Why we post articles about references in popular and elite culture to Prometheus-winning classics, from Orwell’s 1984 to Anderson’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes”

  • R H Snow on Sequels, part 3: Many have been nominated, but only a select few have won a Prometheus award for Best Novel

  • R H Snow on Sequels, part 10: Like the Prometheus Awards, the Hugo awards often recognize sequels – including many of the same novels and authors
  • William H. Stoddard on Writer J. Daniel Sawyer pays tribute to Heinlein in fiction, non-fiction – and praises the Prometheus awards, too

Archives

Categories

  • Appreciations (177)
    • Alternate history (5)
    • Best Novels (52)
    • Comic works (22)
    • Fantasy (26)
    • Hall of Fame (Classic Fiction) (49)
    • Sequels (47)
    • Special Awards (12)
    • Young Adult Fiction (13)
  • Best of the Blog (10)
  • Essays (69)
    • Award Standards (18)
    • Award submissions (8)
    • Economics in fiction (7)
  • Interviews (38)
  • News (459)
    • Author Updates (322)
      • Ayn Rand (20)
      • F. Paul Wilson (24)
      • George Orwell (28)
      • J. R. R. Tolkien (15)
      • James P. Hogan (16)
      • Ken MacLeod (19)
      • L. Neil Smith (29)
      • Michael Flynn (20)
      • Neal Stephenson (16)
      • Poul Anderson (40)
      • Ray Bradbury (18)
      • Robert Heinlein (62)
      • Sarah Hoyt (20)
      • Terry Pratchett (20)
      • Travis Corcoran (21)
      • Ursula K. Le Guin (11)
      • Vernor Vinge (28)
      • Victor Koman (13)
    • Awards history (42)
    • Awards News (135)
      • Award acceptance speech (32)
      • Award presenter speech (21)
    • Fiction in the news (66)
    • LFS programs (34)
    • LFS reports & updates (69)
    • Obits (23)
    • Podcasts (6)
    • Videos (11)
  • Reviews (156)
    • Book reviews (126)
    • Movies (12)
    • Selected Reviews (18)
  • Tributes (36)

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

  • 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

  • Best Novel finalist review: Cherryh and Fancher’s Alliance Unbound dramatizes the crucial fact of scarcity as merchant ships pursue voluntary trade amid authoritarian threats


  • Review: Alastair Reynolds’ Machine Vendetta blends space opera and a police procedural with kaleidoscopic world-building that explores liberty and diversity


  • Best Novel finalist review: Danny King’s Cancelled envisions true-believer excesses of a dystopian New Britannia

  • Best Novel finalist review: Lionel Shriver’s Mania offers cautionary tale about an alternate America denying differences in intelligence


  • Hall of Fame finalist review: Rudyard Kipling’s heterotopia “As Easy as A.B.C.” offers critique of lynching, racial prejudice, mob rule

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

  • Best Novel finalist review: Wil McCarthy’s Beggar’s Sky offers psychedelic first-contact story exploring economic vs. political power on the frontiers of science

  • Hall of Fame finalist review: Poul Anderson’s Orion Shall Rise offers masterful social-scientific world-building in clash of cultures (including a libertarian society)

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

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The Prometheus Awards enter their 46th year, with much to celebrate
 – including raves for our reviews

As 2025 gets underway, the Libertarian Futurist Society has a lot of remember and much to celebrate.

Our non-profit international association of liberty-loving sf/fantasy fans is the midst of our annual cycle nominating eligible works and selecting finalists for the Prometheus Awards, now entering their 46th year and with a solid track record of 50 years within sight.

Reason magazine’s Bob Poole and three-time Prometheus winner Victor Koman added to the luster of our annual Prometheus Awards ceremony, which included an eloquent acceptance speech by two-time Prometheus winner Daniel Suarez, who won his second prize for Best Novel for Critical Mass.

The LFS continued to receive excellent media coverage about our annual Prometheus Award finalists and winners in our two annual categories for Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (the Prometheus Hall of Fame) – especially from the SF/fantasy field’s two leading trade publications, Locus and File 770.

With an attractive new logo, a new series of outreach display ads to reach out to potential new members, and other outreach efforts, the LFS and the Prometheus Awards continue to raise our visibility and enhance our influence.

Continue reading The Prometheus Awards enter their 46th year, with much to celebrate
 – including raves for our reviews

Posted on January 4, 2025January 2, 2025Author Michael GrossbergCategories LFS programs, LFS reports & updatesTags Critical Mass, Daniel Suarez, God's Girlfriend, Gordon Hanka, Howard Andrew Jones, Julia, LFS ads, Lord of a Shattered Land, new logo, outreach, Prometheus Awards, reviews, Sandra NewmanLeave a comment on The Prometheus Awards enter their 46th year, with much to celebrate
 – including raves for our reviews
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