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Recent Posts

  • For the first time this century, the LFS raises membership dues

  • New Gold and Silver Benefactor levels added to Libertarian Futurist Society memberships

  • Award-winning libertarian author Barry B. Longyear, R.I.P.


  • For your consideration: The 2025 Prometheus Awards finalists in a nutshell (with review links and tips on where to find them)

  • In their own ways, the 2025 Best Novel finalists embody the dramatic potential of novels with epic scope

  • Sequels, part 8: More Best Novel winners (not sequels) by L. Neil Smith and Ramez Naam that inspired sequels

  • Sequels, part 7: Sarah Hoyt, Victor Milan and the Kollins brothers all wrote Best Novel winners (not sequels themselves) that inspired solid sequels
  • Sequels, part 6: Vernor Vinge, F. Paul Wilson and two Prometheus-winning sequel novels good enough to spark further sequels
  • Sequels, part 5: Exploring the broader scope of Prometheus-winning sequel novels within Poul Anderson and Ken MacLeod tetralogies
  • Ares: An overlooked sequel to L. Neil Smith’s Prometheus-winning Pallas


Top Posts

  • Tor.com’s new website Reactor worth visiting – and not just for its stories about the Prometheus Award and Prometheus-winning fiction
  • Orwell’s 1984 vs Huxley’s Brave New World: Which fictional dystopia seems more timely today?
  • Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Orwell’s 1984 listed with other literary classics on international blog listing best “Books to Understand the World”
  • Calling all Murderbot fans: Apple TV+ to stream Martha Wells’ series
  • A bountiful crop: The 2024 Best Novel nominees are remarkably varied in genre, style, and theme
  • Interstellar travel, mercantile networks, bureaucracy and decentralization: An Appreciation for Vernor Vinge’s A Deepness in the Sky, the 2000 Prometheus Best Novel winner
  • Best Novel finalist review: Devon Eriksen’s Theft of Fire blends hard SF, romance, suspense and comedy in story of conflict and cooperation

Recent Comments

  • Max More on Remembering five-time Prometheus winner L. Neil Smith on his birthday

  • Karl Gallagher on Sequels, part 3: Many have been nominated, but only a select few have won a Prometheus award for Best Novel

  • Max More on Sequels, part 3: Many have been nominated, but only a select few have won a Prometheus award for Best Novel

  • Max More on Sequels, part 2: How many have won a Prometheus Award? You might be surprised…


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    • Alternate history (5)
    • Best Novels (51)
    • Comic works (22)
    • Fantasy (26)
    • Hall of Fame (Classic Fiction) (48)
    • Sequels (43)
    • Special Awards (11)
    • Young Adult Fiction (12)
  • Best of the Blog (10)
  • Essays (62)
    • Award Standards (18)
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    • Economics in fiction (5)
  • Interviews (31)
  • News (397)
    • Author Updates (260)
      • Ayn Rand (18)
      • F. Paul Wilson (22)
      • George Orwell (24)
      • J. R. R. Tolkien (14)
      • James P. Hogan (16)
      • Ken MacLeod (18)
      • L. Neil Smith (28)
      • Neal Stephenson (14)
      • Poul Anderson (32)
      • Ray Bradbury (13)
      • Robert Heinlein (54)
      • Sarah Hoyt (19)
      • Ursula K. Le Guin (9)
      • Vernor Vinge (25)
      • Victor Koman (13)
    • Awards history (35)
    • Awards News (117)
      • Award acceptance speech (28)
      • Award presenter speech (14)
    • Fiction in the news (46)
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    • LFS reports & updates (58)
    • Obits (22)
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    • Videos (11)
  • Reviews (150)
    • Book reviews (122)
    • Movies (10)
    • Selected Reviews (18)
  • Tributes (33)

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

  • Best Novel finalist review: Cherryh and Fancher’s Alliance Unbound dramatizes the crucial fact of scarcity as merchant ships pursue voluntary trade amid authoritarian threats


  • Review: Alastair Reynolds’ Machine Vendetta blends space opera and a police procedural with kaleidoscopic world-building that explores liberty and diversity


  • Best Novel finalist review: Danny King’s Cancelled envisions true-believer excesses of a dystopian New Britannia

  • Best Novel finalist review: Lionel Shriver’s Mania offers cautionary tale about an alternate America denying differences in intelligence


  • Hall of Fame finalist review: Rudyard Kipling’s heterotopia “As Easy as A.B.C.” offers critique of lynching, racial prejudice, mob rule

  • Best Novel finalist review: Michael Flynn’s In the Belly of the Whale offers sobering drama about challenging and un-libertarian aspects of multi-generation colony-ship voyages

  • Hall of Fame finalist review: Charles Stross’ Singularity Sky offers cornucopia of cutting-edge SF and libertarian themes

  • Best Novel finalist review: Wil McCarthy’s Beggar’s Sky offers psychedelic first-contact story exploring economic vs. political power on the frontiers of science

  • Hall of Fame finalist review: Poul Anderson’s Orion Shall Rise offers masterful social-scientific world-building in clash of cultures (including a libertarian society)

  • Hall of Fame finalist review: “The Trees,” a fantasy-themed rock song by Rush, resonates as cautionary tale

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Tag: The Genius of the West

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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