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  • Review: Ray Nayler’s Where the Axe is Buried offers realistic cautionary tale about AIs, oppression and resistance
  • Godspeed, Artemis astronauts! The first human return to lunar space after more than half a century is overdue – and welcome

  • Where to get the five 2026 Hall of Fame finalists – for as low as $5.87 total if you act fast

  • The biggest novels in Prometheus history: An annotated list of the top dozen in page length (and why such epic works reward readers)

  • The epic power and enduring appeal of the biggest Prometheus-honored novels: The Lord of the Rings, Cryptonomicon and Atlas Shrugged

  • Does size matter? Sarah Hoyt’s unusual three-book novel No Man’s Land achieves epic scope yet is not unprecedented in literary history

  • A guide to Prometheus Awards voting: Check out our reviews of this year’s five Hall of Fame finalists by Blish, Lewis, Huxley, Roberts and Stross

  • New generation of writers dominates this year’s 14 Prometheus nominations for Best Novel

  • Investigative journalist Matt Taibbi inspired by Bradbury’s Prometheus-winning novel to create “Project 451”


  • Travis Corcoran is writing several Young Adult novels, including two for his Prometheus-winning Aristillus series


Top Posts

  • Freedom and free will in the welfare state: Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, the 2008 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • Review: Ray Nayler’s Where the Axe is Buried offers realistic cautionary tale about AIs, oppression and resistance
  • Review: Sacrifice and survival in the film Avengers: Infinity War
  • “Rapport: - A new Martha Wells’ Murderbot story has just been published, free to read at Reactor
  • Orwell’s 1984 vs Huxley’s Brave New World: Which fictional dystopia seems more timely today?
  • Rationality, a mysterious new motor and civilization collapse: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, the first co-winner of the Prometheus Hall of Fame in 1983
  • A guide to Prometheus Awards voting: Check out our reviews of this year’s five Hall of Fame finalists by Blish, Lewis, Huxley, Roberts and Stross


Recent Comments

  • John C.A. Manley on A guide to Prometheus Awards voting: Check out our reviews of this year’s five Hall of Fame finalists by Blish, Lewis, Huxley, Roberts and Stross

  • John C.A. Manley on Two-time Prometheus winner Travis Corcoran has a busy schedule of upcoming books, starting with his 2026 novel Red State Mars
  • J. Kenton Pierce 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 Travis Corcoran is writing several Young Adult novels, including two for his Prometheus-winning Aristillus series


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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: Ray Nayler’s Where the Axe is Buried offers realistic cautionary tale about AIs, oppression and resistance

  • 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


  • 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

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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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