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Recent Posts

  • 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?)
  • The Prometheus Young Adult Honor Roll: A reading and holiday gift guide for parents, teenagers and children

  • CAEZIK SF & Fantasy’s “Ninja Loot” book sale: Discounts on Michael Flynn, Harry Turtledove, other Prometheus-winning authors – and five free ebooks
  • Thoughts and tips on improving our reading habits – as this cycle of Prometheus nominations moves into higher gear
  • R.I.P., Leslie Fish: The Prometheus-winning writer-musician’s stories and songs poetically embodied resistance to tyranny

  • How Arc Manor Books, CAEZIK SF & Fantasy and Phoenix Pick support Prometheus-winning authors, including this year’s Best Novel winner
  • Bradbury, Heinlein, Le Guin, Vonnegut stories ranked among the 26 best SF stories by New Scientist

  • Which Prometheus Hall of Fame winner is ranked among the best SF stories of all time?

Top Posts

  • Prometheus Hall of Fame news: Novels by James Blish, Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, Adam Roberts and Charles Stross selected as 2026 finalists
  • Review: Sandra Newman's Julia a worthy companion to Orwell's 1984
  • “Rapport: - A new Martha Wells’ Murderbot story has just been published, free to read at Reactor
  • “The Emperor’s New Clothes” – Andersen’s fable remains a useful metaphor and illustrative lesson for today
  • Two-time Prometheus winner James Hogan: The long-lost interview
  • Civil disobedience vs. repressive authority: Harlan Ellison’s subversive and satirical story “Repent Harlequin!’, Said the Ticktockman,” the 2015 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • Best Novel finalist review: Michael Flynn’s In the Belly of the Whale offers sobering drama about un-libertarian aspects of multi-generation colony-ship voyages

Recent Comments

  • R H Snow on R.I.P., Leslie Fish: The Prometheus-winning writer-musician’s stories and songs poetically embodied resistance to tyranny

  • John C.A.Manley on The Prometheus Young Adult Honor Roll: A reading and holiday gift guide for parents, teenagers and children

  • Keith Conlon on Celebrating the 45th Prometheus Awards: Astrid Anderson Bear’s acceptance speech for her father Poul Anderson’s novel Orion Shall Rise, the 2025 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • Keith Conlon on Celebrating the 45th Prometheus Awards: Astrid Anderson Bear’s acceptance speech for her father Poul Anderson’s novel Orion Shall Rise, the 2025 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner

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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: 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

  • 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

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


  • 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: “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

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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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