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Recent Posts

  • LFS President: Prometheus Hall of Fame honors reflect passages of time, recognition of merit
  • Final call for 2023 Prometheus Hall of Fame nominations (LFS members have nominated 6 novels, 2 stories, a song and a film so far)
  • Cycles of liberty, deaths, rebirths and new generations: LFS President frames the 2023 Prometheus Awards with historical perspective
  • From the Heinlein Prize Trust archive: Robert Heinlein’s optimistic vision of the future and expansion through the solar system
  • From the Heinlein Prize Trust archive: Robert Heinlein’s “remarkable” 1947 letter about his life, career
  • Remembering Tolkien: Columnist hails “LOTR” author as “most important creative mind of the modern age”
  • “You can’t enslave a free man” – Heinlein Society acceptance speech for “Free Men,” the 2023 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • “Liberty is hard yakka” – Novelist Sarah Hoyt’s speech presenting Best Novel to Dave Freer
  • See the video of the 2023 Prometheus Awards ceremony: Speeches by Sarah Hoyt, Dave Freer, Heinlein Trust and Society leaders and LFS judges
  • The foundations of liberty (and of Cloud-Castles): Part 2 of Dave Freer’s 2023 Best Novel acceptance speech

Top Posts

  • 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
  • More new, emerging authors recognized in this year’s large slate of Best Novel nominees
  • Karen Anderson has died
  • Book-burning, history, memory, individualism and rebellion: An Appreciation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a 1984 co-winner of the Prometheus Hall of Fame
  • Authority, responsibility and a “man from Mars”: Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, a 1987 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • How far can struggles against tyranny go without becoming tyrannical? C.M. Kornbluth's The Syndic, a 1986 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Orwell’s 1984 listed with other literary classics on international blog listing best “Books to Understand the World”

Recent Comments

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  • Georg Felis on “A rebel I became…” Dave Freer’s 2023 Best Novel acceptance speech for Cloud-Castles

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  • Appreciations (114)
    • Best Novels (48)
    • Comic works (16)
    • Hall of Fame (Classic Fiction) (47)
    • Special Awards (11)
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  • Best of the Blog (16)
  • Essays (39)
    • Award Standards (9)
  • Interviews (15)
  • News (229)
    • Author Updates (124)
      • Ayn Rand (8)
      • F. Paul Wilson (6)
      • George Orwell (10)
      • J. R. R. Tolkien (7)
      • James P. Hogan (2)
      • Poul Anderson (7)
      • Robert Heinlein (20)
      • Vernor Vinge (5)
    • Awards history (16)
    • Awards News (82)
      • Award acceptance speech (23)
      • Award presenter speech (7)
    • Fiction in the news (21)
    • LFS programs (14)
    • LFS reports & updates (29)
    • Obits (15)
    • Podcasts (3)
    • Videos (10)
  • Reviews (42)
    • Movies (6)
    • Selected Reviews (6)
  • Tributes (24)

Best of the Blog

  • The best of the blog: Six posts to savor from 2022 (about Bujold, Heinlein, Longyear, McCarthy and more)

  • The corruption of absolute power vs. the largely 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

  • How does sf lend itself to exploring freedom & other ideas? Watch the NASFIC 2020 Prometheus Awards and “Visions of SF, Liberty & Human Rights” panel with authors Hoyt, Wilson; surprise guests Cherryh & Fancher; & LFS leaders

  • 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

  • 40th Anniversary Celebration: An Appreciation of No Award, the 1985 Prometheus Best Novel choice

  • A 40th Anniversary Retrospective: Introducing a Reader’s Guide to the Prometheus Award Winners

  • 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)

  • Reason magazine on our fight over ‘The Dispossessed’

  • Futures in Collision: Firefly’s Divided Society

  • Freedom in the Future Tense: A Political History of SF

Selected Reviews

  • A Study in Subtexts: Freedom, slavery and control in Prometheus winner Lois McMaster Bujold’s Sharing Knife series

  • 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

  • Alternate history as a fruitful genre for re-imagining themes of Liberty versus Power: An Appreciation and Comparison of Harry Turtledove’s The Gladiator and Jo Walton’s Ha’Penny, co-winners of the 2008 Prometheus Award for Best Novel

  • Power, liberty, galactic intrigue and how markets tend to reduce inequality and bigotry: A 40th Anniversary Celebration and Appreciation of F. Paul Wilson’s Wheels within Wheels, the first Prometheus award winner in 1979

  • Back to the Moon: Lunar fiction from Heinlein to McDonald, Weir and Corcoran

  • Review: The Mandibles: A Family 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver

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Prometheus Blog is published by the Libertarian Futurist Society. All opinions expressed on this blog are the opinions of the individual writers and are not necessarily the official positions of the Libertarian Futurist Society or its officers. Comments on blog posts are welcome, but we reserve the right to moderate comments and do not welcome spam, personal attacks or unpleasant political polemics. For inquiries about submitting pieces for publication, please write to blog@lfs.org. For information about joining the Libertarian Futurist Society and participating in the Prometheus Award, have a look around at lfs.org.

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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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