Two-time Prometheus Award-winner James P. Hogan left a lasting legacy for sf fans and liberty lovers.
Hogan had a lot to say, both in fiction and non-fiction, about humanity, technology, liberty, science and politics.
Here is the sixth and final part of a Hogan interview previously unpublished in its full, uncut form:
Continue reading The Hogan Interview, part 6: On AI, favorite novels and advice to aspiring writers
The Libertarian Futurist Society’s ongoing Appreciation series of review-essays strives to make clear what libertarian futurists see in each of our past winners and how they fit the libertarian focus of the Prometheus Awards. Here’s an Appreciation for Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch, the 2003 Prometheus winner for Best Novel:
By William H. Stoddard and Michael Grossberg
Night Watch, the 29th book in Terry Pratchett’s bestselling Discworld series and widely hailed as one of the best, focuses in his usual tongue-in-cheek style on what it takes to build a more-modern police force that eventually will be able to keep the peace and fight violent crime in one of the most unruly cities in fiction.
Filled with individualistic, anti-authoritarian and pragmatically libertarian themes that resonate with the actual history of our own planet and how market economies and modern civilization developed, this ingenious 2002 satirical fantasy blends political intrigue and police drama in a plot that also involves time travel back to the start of a legendary street rebellion.
