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Although not a record number of nominees in this category, this year\u2019s slate is almost as large as the previous year\u2019s 16 nominations \u2013 which was as many as any year of the 21st\u00a0century and larger than in all but two of the past 37 years of Prometheus nominations.<\/p>\n
* The School for Good Mothers,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Jessamine Chan (Simon & Schuster, 335 pages) This is Chan’s first Prometheus nomination and first novel.<\/p>\n * Let Us Tell You Again<\/em>,<\/strong>\u00a0by Mackey Chandler (Amazon, 441 pages) * Cloud-Castles,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by Dave Freer (Magic Isle Press, 358 pages) This is the first Prometheus nomination for Freer, an Australian sf writer.<\/p>\n * Captain Trader Helmsman Spy,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by Karl K. Gallagher (Kelt Haven Press, 234 pages)<\/p>\n Gallagher has been nominated five times before for a Prometheus award, starting in 2018 with the three novels in his Torchship<\/em> trilogy (which were combined into one nomination, as a complete story).<\/p>\n His current nominee is the fourth book in Gallagher’s ongoing \u00a0Fall of the Censor series, the first three novels of which became Best Novel finalists: Storm Between the Stars<\/em> (in 2021) and both Between Home and Ruin<\/em> and Seize What’s Held Dear<\/em> (in 2022).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n * A Beast Cannot Feign,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by Gordon Hanka (AKA \u201cDr. Insensitive Jerk\u201d) (Amazon, 545 pages) Hanka was previously nominated last year for Sainthood in Sixty Seconds<\/em>, part of his five-volume Gaia’s Wasp series.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2022 Entropy,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Dana Hayward (Amazon, 414 pages) \u00a0This is Hayward’s first Prometheus nomination.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *\u00a0The Master Code,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 by T.A. Hunter (Amazon, 382 pages) This is Hunter’s first Prometheus nomination.<\/p>\n * Our Missing Hearts,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Celeste Ng\u00a0 (Penguin Press, 352 pages) This is Ng’s first Prometheus nomination.<\/p>\n * Openings: A Hayek Chronicles Novel,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by James S. Peet (Amazon, James Peet, 382 pages) This is Peet’s first Prometheus nomination.<\/p>\n * Sisters of the Vast Black <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and Sisters of the Forsaken Stars<\/em><\/strong>, by Lina Rather (Our Lady of Endless Worlds Book 1 and 2*) TOR BOOKS, Tordotcom) This is Rather’s first Prometheus nomination.<\/p>\n * The Warrior Worlds<\/em>,<\/strong>\u00a0by Stephen Renneberg\u00a0(Amazon, 476 pages) This is the first first Prometheus nomination for Renneberg, an Australian author.<\/p>\n * Ex Supra<\/em><\/strong>, by Tony Stark\u00a0 (Amazon.com, 531 pages). This is Stark’s first Prometheus nomination and first novel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n * Termination Shock<\/em><\/strong>, by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow, HarperCollins, 708 pages) Stephenson, nominated many times for a Prometheus, has won three Prometheus Awards for The System of the World<\/em> (the 2005 Best Novel winner), Seveneves<\/em> (the 2017 Best Novel winner) and Cryptonomicon<\/em>, inducted in 2013 into the Prometheus Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n * Summers End,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by John Van Stry (Baen Books, 453 pages) Van Stry is a first-time Prometheus nominee.<\/p>\n Overall, this year\u2019s nominees span a wide range of sub-genres within speculative fiction.<\/p>\n Of course, such catch-all genre categories tend to be reductionist, and many of the above nominees offer much more than can be described in such simplified terms \u2013 one reason why it takes LFS judges months of reading and discussion each year to whittle down the nominees to a slate of finalists.<\/p>\n OUR ANNUAL AWARDS PROCESS<\/strong><\/p>\n The Best Novel Finalist Judging Committee will select a slate of (typically five) finalists by early April, with the finalists announced that month.<\/p>\n As always, the full LFS membership at the Full membership level and above (including Sponsors and Benefactors, whose extra support helps to sustain the Prometheus Award and its gold prize), will have a chance to read and vote on the Best Novel finalists \u2013 as they already are doing to weigh the current slate of Prometheus Hall of Fame finalists for Best Classic Fiction.<\/p>\n That judging process extends over several months in the spring and summer before our annual and traditional July 4 voting deadline for LFS members to choose the Prometheus winners. (LFS members can expect to receive their ballots via email by late May.)<\/p>\n Congratulations, and good luck, to all the Best Novel nominees!<\/p>\n * 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 *\u00a0Watch\u00a0 <\/strong>videos <\/strong>of the 2022 Prometheus ceremony with Wil McCarthy, and 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><\/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 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Libertarian Futurist Society members have made 15 nominations for the Best Novel category of the Prometheus Award. Of the authors nominated, two thirds are being recognized for the first time by LFS members, perhaps reflecting in part a new generation of emerging writers whose varied works fit the award\u2019s distinctive focus on science fiction and … Continue reading LFS members make 15 nominations for the next Prometheus Award for Best Novel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[31,10],"tags":[1838,594,1852,1524,1845,1839,1843,1841,1837,1831,1842,1846,1853,1829,1006,1840,1847,1005,20,1827,1834,1835,46,1849,1848,1833,1828,1844,1319,1836,1851,1832,1830,1850],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-news","category-news","tag-a-beast-cannot-feign","tag-best-novel","tag-c-j-carey","tag-captain-trader-helmsman-spy","tag-celeste-ng","tag-cloud-castles","tag-dana-hayward","tag-dave-freer","tag-entropy","tag-ex-supra","tag-gordon-hanka","tag-james-s-peet","tag-jessamine-chan","tag-john-van-stry","tag-karl-k-gallagher","tag-let-us-tell-you-again","tag-lina-rather","tag-mackey-chandler","tag-neal-stephenson","tag-nominations","tag-openings","tag-our-missing-hearts","tag-prometheus-awards","tag-sisters-of-the-forsaken-stars","tag-sisters-of-the-vast-black","tag-stephen-renneberg","tag-summers-end","tag-t-a-hunter","tag-termination-shock","tag-the-master-code","tag-the-school-for-good-mothers","tag-the-warrior-worlds","tag-tony-stark","tag-widowland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe8nGl-1q9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5555,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions\/5555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lfs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>The 12 LFS members delegated to serve on the Prometheus Best Novel Finalist Judging committee began reading and discussing the 2022 nominees last fall and will continue to read, discuss and compare the nominees through March before voting to select the annual slate of finalists.<\/p>\n<\/a>Meanwhile, here is the current crop of nominees, alphabetized by author:<\/p>\n
\n* Widowland,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>by C.J. Carey (Quercus, 432 pages) Carey, a British writer, is a first-time Prometheus nominee.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMackey was first nominated for Best Novel in 2021 for Who Can Own the Stars?<\/em>, a novel in the same future-history series.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0This is a potential combined nomination, subject to the judging committee\u2019s verification under our rules permitting combination of books that fundamentally tell one complete story, of both\u00a0Sisters of the Vast Black\u00a0<\/em>(a 162-page novella published in 2019) and Sisters of the Forsaken Stars <\/em>(her 2022 sequel, a 194-page novel.)<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/i><\/div>\n<\/a>IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>
\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.<\/p>\n