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Recent Posts

  • Investigative journalist Matt Taibbi inspired by Bradbury’s Prometheus-winning novel to create “Project 451”


  • Travis Corcoran is writing several Young Adult novels, including two for his Prometheus-winning Aristillus series

  • The Prometheus Awards and the Forry award for lifetime achievement: Cherryh, Anderson, Heinlein, Pratchett, Ellison among 13 authors recognized by both

  • Prometheus winner C.J. Cherryh recognized with the “Forry” lifetime achievement award
  • Power myths, clashing cultures and the necessity of freedom: The first Prometheus review of Poul Anderson’s “brilliant” Orion Shall Rise

  • Two-time Prometheus winner Travis Corcoran has a busy schedule of upcoming books, starting with his 2026 novel Red State Mars
  • Happy birthday, Gregory Benford – one of the best hard-sf novelists, a Prometheus finalist (and a libertarian)

  • Liberty, literacy and younger generations: Why Prometheus Best Novel winner Dave Freer wrote Storm-Dragon, a Young Adult science fiction novel and current nominee
  • Time travel and second chances: Sarah Hoyt’s new anthology includes a prequel story to her Prometheus-nominated No Man’s Land
  • Last call for Prometheus Best Novel nominations: With the mid-February nominating deadline approaching, 13 2025 novels have been nominated so far


Top Posts

  • Investigative journalist Matt Taibbi inspired by Bradbury’s Prometheus-winning novel to create “Project 451”


  • Happy birthday, Gregory Benford - one of the best hard-sf novelists, a Prometheus finalist (and a libertarian)

  • 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
  • “Rapport: - A new Martha Wells’ Murderbot story has just been published, free to read at Reactor
  • “The Emperor’s New Clothes” – Andersen’s fable remains a useful metaphor and illustrative lesson for today
  • Author’s update: Two-time Prometheus winner Daniel Suarez launches publications of short stories and announces a 2025 novel and film adaptation plans
  • The Locus rave review of Michael Flynn’s last novel - with a remarkable apology - may signal a broader re-evaluation of the three-time Prometheus winner


Recent Comments

  • John C.A. Manley on Investigative journalist Matt Taibbi inspired by Bradbury’s Prometheus-winning novel to create “Project 451”


  • R. H. Snow on Liberty, literacy and younger generations: Why Prometheus Best Novel winner Dave Freer wrote Storm-Dragon, a Young Adult science fiction novel and current nominee
  • Michael Grossberg on Two-time Prometheus winner Travis Corcoran has a busy schedule of upcoming books, starting with his 2026 novel Red State Mars
  • William H. Stoddard on Power myths, clashing cultures and the necessity of freedom: The first Prometheus review of Poul Anderson’s “brilliant” Orion Shall Rise


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  • Best of the Blog (10)
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      • Poul Anderson (44)
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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

  • 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


  • Masterful social-scientific world-building in clash of cultures, including a libertarian society: An appreciation of Poul Anderson’s Orion Shall Rise, the 2025 Prometheus Hall of Fame winner


  • 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

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

  • Best Novel finalist review: Karl K. Gallagher’s Swim Among the People dramatizes heroic planetary resistance to an insidious totalitarian interstellar empire

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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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