{"id":2669,"date":"2020-12-07T20:49:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T02:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?post_type=aiovg_videos&p=2669"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T19:43:33","slug":"free-people-in-the-future-hard-sf-and-veneration-of-competence-writer-travis-corcorans-wide-ranging-speech-at-the-2018-san-jose-worldcon-prometheus-awards-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"aiovg_videos","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/aiovg_videos\/free-people-in-the-future-hard-sf-and-veneration-of-competence-writer-travis-corcorans-wide-ranging-speech-at-the-2018-san-jose-worldcon-prometheus-awards-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Free people in the future, hard sf and veneration of competence: Writer Travis Corcoran\u2019s wide-ranging speech at the 2018 San Jose Worldcon Prometheus Awards ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sample excerpt from Travis Corcoran\u2019s 2018 Prometheus Award acceptance speech for Best Novel for The Powers of the Earth:<\/em>
\n\u201cIt was an amazing honor to be honored among so many other great writers,\u201d Corcoran said.<\/p>\n

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Sf novelist Travis Corcoran (Photo courtesy of author)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cEric Raymond (a freelance writer-reviewer and an LFS board member) said it best:
\n\u2018Hard sf is the vital part of the field. The core of hard science fiction is libertarianism, ordering an insistent individualism, veneration of the competent man and instinctive distrust of coercive social engineering,\u201d Raymond wrote.<\/p>\n

“I agree,” Corcoran said.
\n“Science fiction is best when it tells stories of free people\u00a0using intelligence, skills and hard work to overcome challenges…\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LFS presenters Chris Hibbert and Fred Moulton emceed the Aug. 17, 2018 Prometheus Awards ceremony at the San Jose, Calif. Worldcon, with Hibbert reading Travis Corcoran\u2019s intellectually wide-ranging acceptance speech for The Powers of the Earth. Corcoran\u2019s explicitly libertarian story, set largely on an underground Moon colony, portrays an anarcho-capitalistic society intentionally founded as a refuge from repressive and predatory government, but threatened by an invading Earth\u2019s authoritarian bureaucracy and economic controls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","aiovg_categories":[],"aiovg_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2669","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\/2669","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=2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aiovg_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_categories?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"aiovg_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aiovg_tags?post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}