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Recent Posts

  • 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

  • Robert Kroese launches Ransom’s Law, a five-novel SF series about corporate law in an interstellar future

  • From Doctorow and Tchaikovsky to Nayler and Scalzi, Locus magazine’s finalists for Best Science Fiction of the year overlap with Prometheus judges’ readings of candidates, nominees and winning authors
  • Review: Karl K. Gallagher’s War by Other Means explores tensions between fighting to preserve freedom and giving up freedom to fight more effectively
  • Capsule reviews of all five Best Novel finalists – with no spoilers!

  • Former winners, finalists compete with newcomer as Prometheus Best Novel finalists

  • A new video, by a nominated author and his editor, discusses the Prometheus Best Novel nominees and 2026 finalists – with a big reveal
  • One Prometheus-nominated author hails another in John C.A. Manley’s rave review of Dave Freer’s Young-Adult-oriented Storm-Dragon

Top Posts

  • “Rapport: - A new Martha Wells’ Murderbot story has just been published, free to read at Reactor
  • Review: Dave Freer’s Storm-Dragon offers Heinleinesque Young Adult tale of discovery, self-reliance and courage against abuses of power

  • Remembering a literary giant on his birthday: My interview with Ray Bradbury
  • Review: Harry Turtledove’s Prometheus-nominated Powerless critiques communism and blind obedience to authority
  • “The Emperor’s New Clothes” – Andersen’s fable remains a useful metaphor and illustrative lesson for today
  • Tor.com’s new website Reactor worth visiting – and not just for its stories about the Prometheus Award and Prometheus-winning fiction
  • Allegorical fable about "beastly" communism, coercive egalitarianism: George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the 2011 Prometheus Hall of Fame co-winner for Best Classic Fiction.

Recent Comments

  • John C.A. Manley on Swan Song and “Finnish Weird” SF: Prometheus winner Johanna Sinisalo recognized as Star Rover finalist in top Finland award

  • John C.A. Manley on Review: Karl K. Gallagher’s War by Other Means explores tensions between fighting to preserve freedom and giving up freedom to fight more effectively
  • John C.A. Manley on Capsule reviews of all five Best Novel finalists – with no spoilers!

  • John C.A. Manley on Former winners, finalists compete with newcomer as Prometheus Best Novel finalists


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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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