{"id":1030,"date":"2019-09-10T09:34:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2025-06-19T21:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T02:26:28","slug":"the-2019-prometheus-award-ceremony-at-the-worldcon-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/the-2019-prometheus-award-ceremony-at-the-worldcon-in-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Videos: The 2019 Prometheus Award ceremony at the Worldcon in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lfs.org\/releases.shtml\">The Prometheus Award this year<\/a> went to <em>Causes of Separation<\/em> by Travis Corcoran, while the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award was won by &#8220;Harrison Bergeron&#8221; by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The awards were presented at the 77th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Dublin, Ireland, August 15-19 2019, by two members of the Libertarian Futurist Society, Fred Moulton and John Christmas.<br \/>\nIf you didn&#8217;t make it to the Worldcon, you can watch our (three) videos to witness the event.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the videos below, Fred is the gentleman on the left, while John is on the right. I had to use headphones to hear the audio clearly; your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8212; Tom Jackson<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"20190819 113347\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9nPNJkz53ws?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.lfs.org\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The beginning of the ceremony.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"20190819 113910\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ux4l-RsLbes?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.lfs.org\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Reading of Travis Corcoran&#8217;s acceptance speech.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"20190819 115555\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yDfG4kSKhpA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.lfs.org\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Award presentation for Vonnegut&#8217;s short story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>Join us<\/strong>! To help sustain the Prometheus Awards,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/join.shtml\"> join<\/a> the Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS), a non-profit association of libertarian sf\/fantasy fans and freedom-lovers.<br \/>\nLibertarian futurists believe cultural change is as vital as political change (and often more fun!) in achieving universal individual rights and a better world (perhaps eventually, worlds) for all.<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>Coming up next on the Prometheus Blog:<\/strong>\u00a0A 40<sup>th<\/sup>Anniversary Retrospective: Introducing a Reader\u2019s Guide to the Prometheus Award Winners, a new chronological series of retrospective Appreciations of each past winner, starting with the Best Novel category, first presented in 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prometheus Award this year went to Causes of Separation by Travis Corcoran, while the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award was won by &#8220;Harrison Bergeron&#8221; by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The awards were presented at the 77th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Dublin, Ireland, August 15-19 2019, by two members of the Libertarian Futurist Society, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/the-2019-prometheus-award-ceremony-at-the-worldcon-in-dublin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videos: The 2019 Prometheus Award ceremony at the Worldcon in Dublin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,687,31,10,2664,40],"tags":[122,123,120,113,121,112,46,42,15],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-updates","category-award-acceptance-speech","category-awards-news","category-news","category-travis-corcoran","category-videos","tag-causes-of-separation","tag-dublin-ireland","tag-fred-moulton","tag-harrison-bergeron","tag-john-christmas","tag-kurt-vonnegut","tag-prometheus-awards","tag-travis-corcoran","tag-worldcon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8nGl-gC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}