{"id":5164,"date":"2022-11-04T19:31:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T00:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfs.org\/blog\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2024-01-03T19:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T01:59:38","slug":"hall-of-fame-winner-star-fox-on-sale-as-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/hall-of-fame-winner-star-fox-on-sale-as-ebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Poul Anderson’s Hall of Fame winner ‘Star Fox’ on sale as ebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Star Fox<\/em> by Poul Anderson<\/a>, winner of the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 1995, currently is on sale as a Kindle for only $1.99.<\/a><\/p>\n

1995 was a pretty good year for Anderson, at least as far as the Prometheus Award is concerned. Anderson also won the Prometheus Award that year for his novel The Stars Are Also Fire<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s an excerpt from the Prometheus Blog appreciation<\/a> for The Star Fox<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe novel may be one of the earliest sf works that explicitly imagines a future with Libertarians elected to office in the Senate and world government on Earth. Ironically and very soberingly, in Anderson\u2019s future history, the Libertarians largely assume the role of antagonists to the story\u2019s hero, since they become de facto allies of the Earth\u2019s appeasers who fail to see the central threat that Helm intuits.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Despite such an explicit reference to Libertarian possibilities, Anderson largely was not a novelist willing to undercut or weigh down his narrative for the sake of ideology. As one of the superior sf writers of his era, Anderson was more skillful and subtle than that.<\/p>\n

For example, (ex-Navy space pilot Gunnar) Heim makes a revealing comment amid the tensions of diplomacy, trade, interstellar human politics and the threat of recurrent human-alien war: \u201cPlanet against planet \u2013 that would be the real Ragnarok. What we have to do is show them right now that we aren\u2019t going to be pushed. Then we and they can talk business. Because space is truly big enough for everybody, as long as they respect each other\u2019s right to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such dialogue, reflecting the civilized ideals and universal-rights rhetoric of mid-20th-century America, unobtrusively makes clear the rough links between commerce and peace, reminding us that it\u2019s much riskier to \u201cdo business\u201d amid violence and the extreme institutionalized coercion of governments waging war.”<\/p>\n

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Poul Anderson (Creative Commons license)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Note: Poul Anderson (1926-2001), the first sf author to be honored with a Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement, has been recognized with more Prometheus awards than almost any other author.<\/p>\n

The lifetime-achievement award to the ailing author was accepted by his wife, Karen, at the 2001 LFScon (the first LFS mini-con) at Marcon, Ohio\u2019s oldest and largest sf\/fantasy convention.<\/p>\n

Anderson won his first competitive Prometheus award for his novel Trader to the Stars,<\/em> inducted into the Prometheus Hall of Fame in 1985.
\nHe also wrote The Stars Are Also Fire <\/em>(the 1995 Prometheus winner for Best Novel), \u201cNo Truce with Kings\u201d (a story inducted into the Prometheus Hall of Fame in 2010) and \u201cSam Hall\u201d (a story inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2020).<\/p>\n

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\n* Watch <\/strong>videos <\/strong>of past Prometheus Awards ceremonies, Libertarian Futurist Society panel discussions with noted sf authors and leading libertarian writers, and other LFS programs on the Prometheus Blog\u2019s\u00a0Video page.<\/strong><\/a>
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\n<\/u><\/strong>* Prometheus winners:\u00a0<\/strong>For the full list of Prometheus winners, finalists and nominees \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

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*\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.<\/p>\n

Libertarian futurists believe that culture matters! We understand that the arts and literature can be vital, and in some ways even more powerful than politics in the long run, by sparking innovation, better ideas, positive social change, and mutual respect for each other\u2019s rights and differences.<\/p>\n

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The Star Fox by Poul Anderson, winner of the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 1995, currently is on sale as a Kindle for only $1.99. 1995 was a pretty good year for Anderson, at least as far as the Prometheus Award is concerned. Anderson also won the Prometheus Award that year for his novel … Continue reading Poul Anderson’s Hall of Fame winner ‘Star Fox’ on sale as ebook<\/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":[32,10,1861],"tags":[6,1739,829,240],"class_list":["post-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-updates","category-news","category-poul-anderson","tag-poul-anderson","tag-prometheus-hall-of-fame-award","tag-the-star-fox","tag-the-stars-are-also-fire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8nGl-1li","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164","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=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5173,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions\/5173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}