{"id":2662,"date":"2020-12-07T20:54:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T02:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?post_type=aiovg_videos&p=2662"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:34:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T19:34:53","slug":"sf-writer-travis-corcoran-the-powers-of-the-earth-causes-of-separation-on-cultural-formation-the-morality-of-freedom-vs-coercion-and-vonnegut-story-inducted-into-hall-of-fame-in-2019-prometheus","status":"publish","type":"aiovg_videos","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/aiovg_videos\/sf-writer-travis-corcoran-the-powers-of-the-earth-causes-of-separation-on-cultural-formation-the-morality-of-freedom-vs-coercion-and-vonnegut-story-inducted-into-hall-of-fame-in-2019-prometheus\/","title":{"rendered":"SF writer Travis Corcoran (The Powers of the Earth, Causes of Separation) on cultural formation & the morality of freedom vs. coercion, and Vonnegut story inducted into Hall of Fame in 2019 Prometheus Awards at Dublin Worldcon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sample excerpt from Travis Corcoran\u2019s 2019 acceptance speech:
\n<\/strong>\u201cThe Prometheus Award is not merely recognition. It\u2019s incentive… recognition by a community is a huge incentive\u201d Corcoran said.<\/p>\n

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Travis Corcoran wins his first Prometheus Award Photo: Courtesy of author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cLibertarianism is absolutely correct in its magisteria about the morality of freedom versus coercion…, but we need other theories to augment it,” Corcoran aid.<\/p>\n

“We must turn our attention to other topics, like culture formation and culture subversion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2019 Prometheus Awards ceremony, emceed by Fred Moulton and John Christmas at the Dublin Worldcon in Ireland, presented the Prometheus for Best Novel to Travis Corcoran for Causes of Separation. The Prometheus Hall of Fame inducted \u201cHarrison Bergeron,\u201d a short story by the late Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
\nCorcoran gave a major, wide-ranging acceptance speech, while the emcees read Hall of Fame acceptance statements by Vonnegut\u2019s family and the Vonnegut Museum\/Library.
\nCorcoran discussed political and economic themes in his novel about renegade lunar colonists fighting for independence and a free economy against Earth-based authoritarian rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","aiovg_categories":[],"aiovg_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2662","aiovg_videos","type-aiovg_videos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/aiovg_videos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aiovg_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"aiovg_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}