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Recent Posts

  • A historic first: The Pope quotes a Prometheus-winning classic (and it makes sense that it’s Tolkien)

  • Glenn Harlan Reynolds’ wish: If only Jerry Pournelle could have lived to see today’s remarkable progress in space

  • Prometheus Best Novel finalist David Brin to receive the Arthur C. Clarke Memorial Award at the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference

  • “What is a Hater?” – Economist David Henderson applies Orwell’s 1984 insights about how authoritarians abuse language to discount criticism and demonize others

  • “Tired of Giving Lies a Helping Hand” – A review of Harry Turtledove’s Best Novel finalist Powerless

  • How many Prometheus winners have reached the screen? More than you might realize!

  • Orwell’s Animal Farm falls disappointingly short in new animated film version that distorts its anti-authoritarian themes

  • Kurt Vonnegut’s Prometheus-winning “Harrison Bergeron” recognized for real-world relevance to “millionaires’ tax” debate

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

  • Aldous Huxley’s Prometheus Hall of Fame finalist Brave New World has inspired an acclaimed graphic novel


Top Posts

  • A historic first: The Pope quotes a Prometheus-winning classic (and it makes sense that it’s Tolkien)

  • Author’s update: Two-time Prometheus winner Daniel Suarez launches publications of short stories and announces a 2025 novel and film adaptation plans
  • Male vs. female readers, and science fiction vs. fantasy: Is modern publishing targeting one more than the other? 

  • Interstellar travel, mercantile networks, bureaucracy and decentralization: An Appreciation for Vernor Vinge’s A Deepness in the Sky, the 2000 Prometheus Best Novel winner
  • Orwell’s fable Animal Farm ruefully hailed as relevant to today’s sociopolitical trends

  • Slavery, liberty, racism and the lessons of history: An Appreciation of Delia Sherman’s The Freedom Maze, a 2012 Prometheus Award winner for Best Novel
  • Review: Sandra Newman's Julia a worthy companion to Orwell's 1984

Recent Comments

  • Nano Banana AI on Prometheus Best Novel finalist David Brin to receive the Arthur C. Clarke Memorial Award at the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference

  • William H. Stoddard on “What is a Hater?” – Economist David Henderson applies Orwell’s 1984 insights about how authoritarians abuse language to discount criticism and demonize others

  • D. Jason Fleming on How many Prometheus winners have reached the screen? More than you might realize!

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


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  • Appreciations (187)
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    • Best Novels (52)
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    • Fantasy (26)
    • Hall of Fame (Classic Fiction) (53)
    • Sequels (48)
    • Special Awards (12)
    • Young Adult Fiction (18)
  • Best of the Blog (10)
  • Essays (77)
    • Award Standards (19)
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    • Economics in fiction (10)
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  • Interviews (41)
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      • F. Paul Wilson (24)
      • George Orwell (34)
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      • James P. Hogan (17)
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      • L. Neil Smith (32)
      • Michael Flynn (24)
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      • Poul Anderson (45)
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      • Sarah Hoyt (31)
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      • Vernor Vinge (31)
      • Victor Koman (14)
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      • Awards nominees (6)
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    • Videos (11)
  • Reviews (179)
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    • Movies (15)
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  • Tributes (44)
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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: 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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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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