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<\/a>How do this year\u2019s Prometheus winners \u2013 Longyear\u2019s The Hook<\/em> and F. Paul Wilson\u2019s satirical story \u201cLipidleggin\u2019\u201d<\/em> \u2013 explore the value of individual freedom and human rights, champion cooperation over coercion, dramatize the perennial tensions between liberty and power and\/or expose the evils of tyranny, slavery and other abuses of unchecked government power?<\/p>\n All these questions will be discussed Saturday afternoon Aug. 21 during the 41st\u00a0<\/sup>annual Prometheus Awards ceremony in a free post-ceremony Zoom panel discussion, with Reason\u00a0<\/em>magazine as media sponsor.<\/p>\n Reason\u00a0<\/em>editor-in-chief Katherine Mangu-Ward and Reason\u00a0<\/em>book editor Jesse Walker will join award-winning author Barry B. Longyear and Libertarian Futurist Society president William H. Stoddard in the post-ceremony panel discussion (for free access, see Zoom link below) on “SF, Liberty, Alternative Publishing Trends and the Prometheus Awards.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ABOUT THE PANELISTS Barry B. Longyear\u00a0<\/strong>is the first writer to win the Nebula Award, Hugo Award, and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer all in the same year. In addition to his acclaimed Enemy Mine\u00a0<\/em>series, which inspired a 1985 film starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr., his works include numerous short stories, the Circus World\u00a0<\/em>series, the Infinity Hold\u00a0<\/em>series, and novels ranging from Sea of Glass\u00a0<\/em>to The God Box<\/em>, as well as his much praised Science-fiction Writer’s Workshop-I <\/em>and his\u00a0online writing seminar, The Write Stuff,\u00a0<\/em>now available in trade paperback and Kindle formats.\u00a0His most recent publication is the seven-volume science-fiction series,\u00a0The War Whisperer<\/em>, the fifth book of which, The Hook<\/em>, earned the 2021 Prometheus Award for Best Novel. Longyear’s\u00a0first Prometheus nomination came in 1984 for his novel The Tomorrow Testament. <\/em>Other Prometheus-recognized works include Infinity Hold\u00a0<\/em>(1990 Best Novel nominee), and Circus World\u00a0<\/em>(1991 and 1999 Hall of Fame nominee.) He lives in Maine.<\/p>\n Katherine Mangu-Ward\u00a0<\/strong>is editor in chief of Reason<\/em>, the magazine of \u201cfree minds and free markets.\u201d\u00a0A few of her\u00a0more memorable cover stories include\u00a0a defense of plastic bags<\/a>, an argument for\u00a0why you almost certainly shouldn\u2019t vote<\/a>, and a\u00a0welcome to our new robot overlords<\/a>. William H. Stoddard\u00a0<\/strong>is the president of the Libertarian Futurist Society and the chair of its Hall of Fame Awards Committee. He works as a freelance copy editor specializing in scientific and scholarly publications. Jesse Walker,\u00a0<\/strong>books editor of Reason\u00a0<\/em>magazine, is the author of\u00a0Rebels on the Air; An Alternative History of Radio in America\u00a0<\/em>(2001) and The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory\u00a0<\/em>(2013).<\/p>\n His articles have appeared in\u00a0The New York Times, The Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Politico, L.A. Times\u00a0<\/em>and many other publications.<\/p>\n His occasional forays into fiction have surfaced in Polyphony<\/em> and The Blotter<\/em> and he maintains a blog called\u00a0The Perpetual Three-Dot Column<\/em>. SCHEDULE OF THE AWARDS SHOW & PANEL<\/strong><\/p>\n The Libertarian Futurist Society will present the 41st annual Prometheus Awards, with the two-part program beginning with the awards ceremony itself (3-3:30 p.m. Saturday Aug. 21 Eastern Daylight Time), presented by Michael Grossberg and William H. Stoddard, respective LFS chairs of the Best Novel and Hall of Fame finalist judging committees.<\/p>\n Longyear will accept the 2021 Prometheus Award for Best Novel for The Hook<\/em>, while F. Paul Wilson will accept the 2021 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award for Best Classic Fiction for his satirical story \u201cLipidleggin\u2019.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Immediately following the awards ceremony on the same Zoom broadcast will be the panel discussion (3:30-4:45 p.m. Aug. 21 EDT), with LFS Board member Chris Hibbert as Zoom-event producer and panel introducer-moderator.<\/p>\n Admission to the awards ceremony and panel is free and open to the public. The 2021 Prometheus Awards ceremony and panel will air live, and will be recorded for later viewing on the LFS website at www.lfs.org https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/88645567244?pwd=R3YwQW4yR1Q0Mm1QODRZeDdFR0RhQT09<\/a><\/p>\n * Read the\u00a0introductory essay<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0about the LFS\u2019 40th\u00a0<\/sup>anniversary retrospective series of Appreciations of past Prometheus Awards winners, with an overview of the awards\u2019 four-decade-plus history.<\/p>\n * Other Prometheus winners:\u00a0<\/strong>For a full list of winners \u2013 for the annual Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame) categories and occasional Special Awards \u2013 visit the recently updated and enhanced\u00a0Prometheus Awards page\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>on the LFS website.<\/p>\n *\u00a0Join us<\/strong>! To help sustain the Prometheus Awards,\u00a0join\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>the Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS), a non-profit all-volunteer association of freedom-loving sf\/fantasy fans. Libertarian futurists believe culture is as vital as politics (and often more fulfilling, positive and productive in the longer run) in sparking positive social change and spreading positive visions of the future and achieving universal liberty and human rights and a better world (perhaps eventually, worlds) for all.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How is technology expanding book publishing and alternative fiction, a trend reflected more strongly than ever in this year\u2019s slate of Best Novel finalists for the Prometheus Award? What\u2019s the historic relationship among science fiction, liberty and the libertarian movement-and is that changing? 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\n<\/strong>Here are the bios, in alphabetical order, of the four panelists who will speak and exchange views Saturday afternoon EDT Aug. 21 on the LFS-Reason panel discussion immediately following the 2021 Prometheus awards ceremony:<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nShe\u00a0started as\u00a0Reason<\/em>\u00a0intern in 2000, and has worked at\u00a0The Weekly Standard<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>. Her writing has appeared in\u00a0The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post,<\/em>\u00a0The Los Angeles Times<\/em>,\u00a0Slate<\/em>, and numerous other publications.
\nShe is a frequent commentator on radio\/TV networks such as National Public Radio, CNBC, C-SPAN, Fox Business, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC.\u00a0A Future Tense Fellow at New America and graduate of Yale University, where she received a B.A. in philosophy and political science, she lives in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nHe is also a role-playing gamer and has written more than two dozen books for Steve Jackson Games, starting with GURPS Steampunk<\/em>,<\/strong> which won the Origins Award for best roleplaying supplement of 2000.\u00a0GURPS Social Engineering\u00a0<\/i><\/b>won an ENnie award (given at GenCon) in 2012 for best electronically published book. His most recent published book is\u00a0GURPS Furries.
\n<\/i><\/b>A graduate of the University of California at San Diego, he escaped from California in 2020 and now lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife, their cat, and 100 shelf feet of books<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nA University of Michigan alumnus, he lives in Baltimore with his wife, their two daughters and a rabbit.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nFor live access, just before, at or after 3 p.m. Saturday Aug. 21 EDT, simply click on this Zoom-event link:<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n* Read\u00a0\u201cThe Libertarian History of Science Fiction,\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0an essay in the June 2020 issue of the international magazine\u00a0Quillette<\/em>\u00a0that favorably highlights the Prometheus Awards, the Libertarian Futurist Society and the significant element of libertarian sf\/fantasy in the modern genre.<\/p>\n