{"id":2465,"date":"2020-12-08T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2025-06-19T20:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T01:44:17","slug":"a-viewers-guide-to-the-new-lfs-videos-page-of-panel-discussions-podcasts-and-acceptance-speeches-by-cherryh-corcoran-doctorow-ellison-hoyt-macleod-weir-wilson-other-writers-and-lfs-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/a-viewers-guide-to-the-new-lfs-videos-page-of-panel-discussions-podcasts-and-acceptance-speeches-by-cherryh-corcoran-doctorow-ellison-hoyt-macleod-weir-wilson-other-writers-and-lfs-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"A viewer’s guide to the new LFS Videos page of panel discussions, podcasts, and acceptance speeches by Cherryh, Corcoran, Doctorow, Ellison, Hoyt, MacLeod, Weir, Wilson, other writers and LFS leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a handy guide to viewing the Libertarian Futurist Society\u2019s recorded programs – and a welcome to our new Videos page.<\/p>\n

Below is an overview, with links and descriptions, of LFS panel discussions, podcasts, interviews and awards ceremonies over the past decade at various Worldcons (World Science Fiction Conventions) and NASFiCs (North American Science Fiction Conventions).<\/p>\n

But first, take a look to your left – to the new VIDEOS link at the top of the left-side column of the Prometheus blog. Here is where you can go, from now on, to check out all LFS videos and podcasts, including each year’s Prometheus Awards ceremonies and related speeches and Worldcon panel discussions, as they are recorded and added each year. (The LFS is already looking forward to making plans to present our 2021 Prometheus Awards ceremony at DisCon II, the 79th Worldcon set to run Aug. 25-29, 2021, in Washington, D.C.)<\/p>\n

In these LFS panels, podcasts and Prometheus award speeches, bestselling sf novelists and LFS members have discussed a wide variety of timely and timeless subjects that inspired their stories and novels.<\/p>\n

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Cory Doctorow (Creative Commons license)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among the speakers: novelists C.J. Cherryh, Travis Corcoran, Cory Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Jane Fancher, Sarah Hoyt, John Hunt, Ken MacLeod, Ramez Naam, Andy Weir, and F. Paul Wilson and LFS leaders Steve Gaalema, Michael Grossberg, Tom Jackson and LFS president William H. Stoddard.<\/p>\n

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C.J. Cherry (Creative Commons license)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unlike typical awards acceptance speeches at the Oscars, Tonys, Grammys or Emmys, which tend to be laundry lists of names to thank, most Prometheus-Ceremony speeches tend to be wide-ranging, fascinating, thoughtful (and longer) explorations of ideas, ideals and libertarian themes, often combined with personal stories – and thus, rewarding to view even years later.<\/p>\n

Here, in this overview of LFS videos, the most recent events are listed first, with brief descriptions of speakers and subjects, \u00a0interesting excerpts and links.<\/p>\n

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* The 2020 Prometheus Awards ceremony and post-ceremony panel discussion on\u00a0\u201cVisions of SF, Liberty, Human Rights:\u00a0The Prometheus Awards Over Four Decades, from F. Paul Wilson and Robert Heinlein to Today\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(Columbus NASFiC, Aug. 22, 2020)<\/p>\n

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F. Paul Wilson File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The North American Science Fiction Convention two-part event begins with a 30-minute Prometheus Awards ceremony, emceed by Michael Grossberg and Tom Jackson, included acceptance speeches by C.J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher for Best Novel (Alliance Rising<\/em>) and by Astrid Anderson Bear, accepting for her late father Poul Anderson for the story \u201cSam Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n

The final 50 minutes is the LFS panel discussion, moderated by Tom Jackson, included Prometheus-winning novelists F. Paul Wilson, Sarah Hoyt, C.J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher and LFS leaders William H. Stoddard, Michael Grossberg and Tom Jackson.<\/p>\n