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Recent Posts

  • 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
  • Two Prometheus Hall of Fame classics appear on the list of singer/songwriter David Bowie’s top-100 greatest books
  • Swan Song and “Finnish Weird” SF: Prometheus winner Johanna Sinisalo recognized as Star Rover finalist in top Finland award

  • Vernor Vinge and Terry Pratchett: A hidden connection between two Prometheus winners, one a master of serious SF, the other of satirical fantasy
  • 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


Top Posts

  • Robots, liberty and the tyranny of “benevolence”: Jack Williamson’s novelette “With Folded Hands...,” the 2018 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner
  • 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 Appreciation of No Award, the 1985 Prometheus Best Novel choice
  • Capsule reviews of all five Best Novel finalists - with no spoilers!

  • Orwell’s 1984 vs Huxley’s Brave New World: Which fictional dystopia seems more timely today?
  • Review: Sandra Newman's Julia a worthy companion to Orwell's 1984
  • "Propertarians," anarchism, socialism and ambiguous utopias: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, the 1993 Prometheus Hall of Fame 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: 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

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

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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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