{"id":2078,"date":"2020-08-26T11:18:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T16:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2024-01-03T20:49:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T02:49:38","slug":"how-does-sf-lend-itself-to-exploring-freedom-other-ideas-do-dystopias-fit-within-the-prometheus-award-as-much-as-positive-visions-of-liberty-how-much-has-heinlein-influenced-other-authors-watch-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/how-does-sf-lend-itself-to-exploring-freedom-other-ideas-do-dystopias-fit-within-the-prometheus-award-as-much-as-positive-visions-of-liberty-how-much-has-heinlein-influenced-other-authors-watch-t\/","title":{"rendered":"How does sf lend itself to exploring freedom & other ideas? Watch the NASFIC 2020 Prometheus Awards and \u201cVisions of SF, Liberty & Human Rights\u201d panel with authors Hoyt, Wilson; surprise guests Cherryh & Fancher; & LFS leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serendipity and seized opportunity enhanced the star power and appeal of the Libertarian Futurist Society\u2019s panel discussion at the 2020 online North American Science Fiction Convention.<\/p>\n

Unexpectedly but delightfully, the Hugo-winning Grand Master novelist C.J. Cherryh<\/strong> <\/a>and her partner Jane. S. Fancher<\/strong><\/a> joined past Prometheus winners Sarah Hoyt<\/strong> <\/a>and F. Paul Wilson<\/strong><\/a> and several LFS veteran leaders including LFS President William H. Stoddard in answering a variety of thought-provoking questions during the NASFiC\/LFS panel on “Visions of SF, Liberty, Human Rights:\u00a0The Prometheus Awards Over Four Decades, from F. Paul Wilson and Robert Heinlein to Today.\u201d
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\nWhen panel moderator Tom Jackson noticed that <\/span>Cherryh and Fancher were still hanging out within the Zoom \u201cmeeting room\u201d after accepting their 2020 Best Novel award for co-writing Alliance Rising\u00a0<\/i>to watch the post-ceremony panel discussion, <\/i>he noted their presence and ability to participate.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tom Jackson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a few questions to the other panelists, Jackson invited Cherryh and Fancher to come into the discussion with their comments.
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Which they graciously did, and fascinatingly so.<\/p>\n

Thus, the long-planned NASFiC panel celebrating the recent 40th\u00a0<\/sup>anniversary of the Prometheus Awards \u2013 first presented by L. Neil Smith to F. Paul Wilson in 1979 \u2013 expanded into an event with interesting comments from not two but four bestselling, Prometheus-award-winning novelists.<\/p>\n

Here is the full panel discussion, part of an 80-minute two-part NASFiC\/LFS video that begins with the 2020 Prometheus Awards ceremony, including Cherryh and Fancher’s Best Novel acceptance speech and Astrid Anderson Bear’s Hall of Fame acceptance speech for her late father Poul Anderson; and concludes with the 50-minute panel discussion:<\/p>\n