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Recent Posts

  • The John Christmas interview, part 3: Good guys, bad guys, Cold War politics, fiction writing and how Putin has delayed his next novel
  • John Christmas interview, part two: What the novelist and awards judge looks for in Prometheus nominees and what he’s learned about writing fiction
  • Interview: Best Novel judge John Christmas on favorite Prometheus winners, lessons learned about writing fiction from judging the awards
  • Best of the blog, part 2: Six more 2022 reviews, interviews worth rereading about libertarian science fiction
  • Greg Bear, RIP: Prolific awardwinning sf author ( and Poul Anderson’s son-in-law) wrote more than 50 novels
  • The best of the blog: Six posts to savor from 2022 (about Bujold, Heinlein, Longyear, McCarthy and more)
  • The Prometheus Awards reach a notable milestone: 100 works recognized!
  • Prometheus Blog progress: The LFS Appreciation series about past winners is now complete and accessible

Top Posts

  • Real-world entrepreneurship advancing humanity across our solar system: An Appreciation of Wil McCarthy’s Rich Man’s Sky, the 2022 Prometheus Best Novel winner
  • A 40th Anniversary Retrospective: Introducing a Reader’s Guide to the Prometheus Award Winners
  • Tyranny? in America? Sinclair Lewis imagined it in his cautionary 1935 tale It Can’t Happen Here, the 2007 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • New streaming series version of Atlas Shrugged in the works
  • Prometheus Blog progress: The LFS Appreciation series about past winners is now complete and accessible
  • Robots, liberty and the tyranny of “benevolence”: Jack Williamson’s novelette “With Folded Hands...,” the 2018 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • A dystopian action film with radical and libertarian ideas: V for Vendetta, the 2007 Prometheus Special Award winner

Recent Comments

  • William H. Stoddard on A Study in Subtexts: Freedom, slavery and control in Prometheus winner Lois McMaster Bujold’s Sharing Knife series
  • Karl K. Gallagher on A Study in Subtexts: Freedom, slavery and control in Prometheus winner Lois McMaster Bujold’s Sharing Knife series
  • Michael Grossberg on New streaming series version of Atlas Shrugged in the works
  • john andrew Karr on New streaming series version of Atlas Shrugged in the works

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    • Best Novels (48)
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    • Special Awards (10)
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  • Best of the Blog (17)
  • Essays (34)
    • Award Standards (9)
  • Interviews (12)
  • News (151)
    • Author Updates (61)
    • Awards history (11)
    • Awards News (61)
      • Award acceptance speech (15)
    • Fiction in the news (5)
    • LFS programs (13)
    • LFS reports & updates (24)
    • Obits (15)
    • Podcasts (3)
    • Videos (9)
  • Reviews (36)
    • Movies (3)
    • Selected Reviews (8)
  • Tributes (21)

Best of the Blog

  • Best of the blog, part 2: Six more 2022 reviews, interviews worth rereading about libertarian science fiction

  • 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’?

  • 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: Avengers: Infinity War

  • Review: Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

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

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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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