{"id":10227,"date":"2026-02-08T00:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/?p=10227"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:27:59","slug":"prometheus-winner-c-j-cherryh-recognized-with-the-forry-lifetime-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/prometheus-winner-c-j-cherryh-recognized-with-the-forry-lifetime-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Prometheus winner C.J. Cherryh recognized with the \u201cForry\u201d lifetime achievement award"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Michael Grossberg<\/a><\/p>\n

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C.J. Cherryh in the 1990s (File photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Congratulations to C.J. Cherryh for her latest well-deserved honor.<\/p>\n

Cherryh, who co-wrote the 2020 Prometheus Best Novel winner (Alliance Rising) <\/i>with her partner Jane S. Fancher, is the winner of the 2025 Forrest J Ackerman Award for Lifetime Achievement given by the members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society.<\/p>\n

The Forry Award, as it’s known informally, is Cherryh\u2019s fourth career honor, according to a news note<\/a> in File 770, a leading publication covering the sf\/fantasy field.\u00a0 She was named a SFWA Grand Master in 2016 from the Science Fiction Writers Association, received the Skylark Award from the New England Science Fiction Association in 1988, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award from our friends in the Heinlein Society in 2021.<\/p>\n


\nCHERRYH\u2019S ACCLAIMED CAREER<\/b><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cherryh, who began writing stories at the age of 10 and published her first novel in 1976 for DAW Books, has written more than 80 books including the Hugo Award\u2013winning novels Downbelow Station<\/i>\u00a0(1981) and\u00a0Cyteen<\/i>\u00a0(1988). Cherryh also won a Hugo for the short story \u201cCassandra\u201d (1979).<\/p>\n

She is known for her intense third-person narrative voice and realistic SF world-building, especially in depicting an interstellar human future, alien cultures and her complex Alliance-Union universe.<\/p>\n

THE ALLIANCE-UNION SERIES<\/b><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/b>Alliance Rising<\/a> <\/i>is the first book in Cherryh and Fancher\u2019s projected Hinder Stars\u00a0trilogy within their far-reaching interstellar Alliance-Union series.<\/p>\n

Although Alliance Rising<\/i> is Cherryh\u2019s first work to win a Prometheus Award, several of her novels have been nominated over the decades for our award, including Pride of Chanur<\/i>\u00a0in 1983, The Kif Strike Back<\/i>\u00a0in 1986, and Finity\u2019s End<\/i>\u00a0(a Best Novel finalist) in 1998.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Alliance Unbound,<\/i> <\/a>Book Two in the Hinder Stars trilogy about an intergalactic socioeconomic and political conflict among free traders and aggressive imperialist State forces, was a 2025 Prometheus Best Novel finalist. (There’s no word yet on when the third novel in the trilogy will be finished or published.)<\/p>\n

By my count, Cherryh is the 13th Prometheus-winning author to be recognized with the Ackerman award. For the full list, visit the LASFS website<\/a> and this Forry Awards page.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Left to right: Jane S. Fancher and her wife and writing partner C.J. Cherryh (File photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to its website, the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS), founded Oct. 27, 1934, is the world\u2019s oldest continuously active science-fiction and fantasy club\u2026. Many members both run and volunteer at our annual West Coast Science Fantasy Conference (Westercon<\/a>) and\u00a0Loscon \u2013 the Los Angeles Regional Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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ABOUT THE LFS AND THE PROMETHEUS AWARDS<\/b><\/p>\n

*\u00a0Join us!<\/b> To help sustain the Prometheus Awards and support a cultural and literary strategy to appreciate and honor freedom-loving fiction, \u00a0join<\/a> the Libertarian Futurist Society, a non-profit all-volunteer international association of freedom-loving sf\/fantasy fans.<\/p>\n

Libertarian futurists understand that culture matters. We believe that literature and the arts can be vital in envisioning a freer and better future. In some ways, culture can be even more influential and powerful than politics in the long run, by imagining better visions of the future incorporating peace, prosperity, progress, tolerance, justice, positive social change, and mutual respect for each other\u2019s rights, human dignity, individuality and peaceful choices.<\/p>\n

* Prometheus winners:\u00a0<\/b>For a full list of Prometheus winners, finalists and nominees \u2013 including in the annual Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame) categories and occasional Special Awards \u2013 visit the enhanced \u00a0Prometheus Awards page<\/a>\u00a0on the LFS website. This page includes convenient links to all published essay-reviews in our Appreciation series explaining why each of more than 100 past winners since 1979 fits the awards\u2019 distinctive dual focus on both quality and liberty.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0Watch videos of past Prometheus Awards ceremonies, Libertarian Futurist Society panel discussions with noted sf authors and leading libertarian writers, and other LFS programs on the Prometheus Blog\u2019s\u00a0Video page.<\/a><\/p>\n

* Read \u201cThe Libertarian History of Science Fiction,\u201d<\/a> an essay in the international magazine\u00a0Quillette<\/i>\u00a0that favorably highlights the Prometheus Awards, the Libertarian Futurist Society and the significant element of libertarian sf\/fantasy in the evolution of the modern genre.<\/p>\n

* Check out the Libertarian Futurist Society\u2019s Facebook page<\/a> for comments, updates and links to the latest Prometheus Blog posts.<\/p>\n

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