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<\/a><\/p>\nThe focus of the ad\/outreach effort will be in two areas: print and online.<\/p>\n
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The print-ad campaign will run for two years and begin with a display ad in the May issue of Reason<\/em> magazine, which will be mailed to subscribers in mid-March. LFS ads will then run in every other print issue from now through the spring of 2024.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the LFS’ first major digital-ad effort, led by LFS board members and digital-ad experts Chris Hibbert and Charlie Morrison, will begin with an exploratory, information-gathering one-year campaign of digital ads to develop targeted marketing lists to identify people who might be most interested in the LFS and the Prometheus Awards.<\/p>\n Basically, that means freedom-loving sf\/fantasy fans and libertarians who care about culture and who recognize that imaginative sf\/fantasy fiction with gripping narratives and compelling characters can help readers envision the many possibilities of a free future – here on Earth and eventually, perhaps, elsewhere in our solar system and beyond.<\/p>\n The LFS print ad incorporates a new Prometheus-themed logo and a new ad slogan – Culture Matters. \u00a0That slogan sums up the strategic vision of the Libertarian Futurist Society and our Prometheus Awards program, designed to foster and recognize positive visions of a free and free-er future for all of humanity – one without violence, aggression, war or the institutionalized and often sadly legalized aggression that is and always has been the bloody and brutal foundation of the State.<\/p>\n The text of the ad is simple, brief and to the point: The new logo, pictured above, portrays a burst of flame being held in a nurturing hand. The logo, developed by the creative ad\/graphics team of the medical-supplies company run by board member Charlie Morrison, is meant to evoke the mythic power of Prometheus.<\/p>\n As legend has it, Prometheus brought fire to humankind – including the fires of imagination, creativity and liberty. As libertarian futurists know well, that fire has spurred so much of our progress, prosperity, innovation, advancing science and greater understanding of the universe we live in, including the greater respect for other people’s rights that has developed in recent centuries as most forms of slavery and some major tyrannies have been abolished.<\/p>\n The Prometheus Awards take their name from the Greek myth about a titan who brought fire to mankind. As Louis Rougier wrote in The Genius of the West<\/span>,<\/em> his 1971 book with a preface by the Nobel-Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek: Art can fire up the imagination about the limitless possibilities of liberty \u2013 not only in the West but throughout the world and for all of humanity.<\/p>\n Through the LFS’ new outreach campaign and print\/digital advertising over the next two years, we hope to fire up the imagination of more libertarians and liberty-loving sf\/fantasy fans to join us and help sustain the Prometheus Awards, now not that many years away from reaching its 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n As always, any LFS members are welcome to volunteer to join the ad hoc digital-advertising committee led by Hibbert and Morrison, and\/or help us reach out to liberty-loving friends, acquaintances and family members to join the LFS.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n * Read the\u00a0introductory essay<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of 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, that was launched in 2019 on the 40th<\/sup>anniversary of the awards and continues today.<\/p>\n * 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 enhanced\u00a0Prometheus Awards page\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>on the LFS website, which now includes convenient links to the full set of published appreciation-reviews of past winners.<\/p>\n * Read\u00a0\u201cThe Libertarian History of Science Fiction,\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0an essay in 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 evolution of the modern genre.<\/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. \u00a0Libertarian futurists believe culture is as vital as politics in sparking innovation, better ideas, positive social change, respect for each other\u2019s rights and differences and in spreading positive visions of the future and achieving universal liberty and human rights for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Libertarian Futurist Society is on the verge of launching in 2022 an exciting new ad and outreach campaign. 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\n“Support the Prometheus Award for pro-liberty science fiction. If you appreciate how literature sustains visions of freedom, join the Libertarian Futurist Society! www.lfs.org<\/p>\n
\n“The myth undergirding the civilization of the West is the myth of Prometheus – the philanthropic hero who dared defy the will of Zeus by stealing fire from heaven and giving it to mortal men whom that jealous tyrant of the heaven and the earth had decided to destroy. The story expresses the spirit of revolt against the prohibition of jealous gods (and) embodies that love of action which incited Hercules to rid the earth of tyrants.”<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n