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<\/a><\/p>\nThe full-page ad, including a “bleed,” will appear in print in the Seattle Worldcon’s program book, to be distributed to all attendees during the Aug. 13-17 event at the Seattle Convention Center.<\/p>\n
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The ad copy was created by LFS board members Michael Grossberg and Charlie Morrison, with the design by Morrison.<\/p>\n
Here is the full text of the ad, which was designed and adapted specifically with the World Science Fiction Convention\u2019s general audience of SF\/fantasy fans in mind:<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Culture matters.<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n You can\u2019t create a freer, better future without supporting arts and culture.<\/strong> A nonprofit international network of freedom-loving sf\/fantasy fans, the LFS sponsors the Prometheus Awards for pro-freedom speculative fiction and publishes reviews, essays, author\u2019s updates and more on the LFS website\u2019s Prometheus blog. We elieve cultural change is as vital as political change in achieving freedom and justice for all. After all, imagination is the first step in envisioning freer futures.<\/p>\n LFS members nominate works and choose annual winners for Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (the Prometheus Hall of Fame). The awards recognize outstanding works that dramatize the perennial conflict between Liberty and Power, favor cooperation over coercion, expose abuses of coercive government, critique or satirize authoritarian ideologies, and\/or champion respect for individual rights as the foundation for peace, prosperity, progress, justice, tolerance, human dignity, civility and the flourishing of civilization itself.<\/p>\n \u201cPrometheus Award… results are as remarkable as the award’s longevity. The LFS ranges far outside the borders of conventional American libertarian thought\u2026 with equally diverse selections on nominee lists. Following this particular award can be rewarding for readers of all stripes’ \u201cLibertarian-leaning authors have had an outsized, lasting influence on the SF field\u2026 Unlike most ideologies that advocate forms of protectionism and Luddite restrictionism, the libertarian outlook values choice, freedom, a general openness to radical new ideas and an instinctive rejection of stale convention and custom.\u201d \u201cUniquely among political movements, many of libertarianism’s most influential texts have been by SF writers.\u201d Among Prometheus winners*: \u00a0<\/b>Hans Christian Andersen (\u201cThe Emperor’s New Clothes\u201d<\/b>), Poul Anderson (<\/i>Trader to the Stars<\/i><\/b>)<\/i>, Ray Bradbury (<\/i>Fahrenheit 451<\/i><\/b>)<\/i>, Travis Corcoran (<\/i>The Powers of the Earth<\/i><\/b>)<\/i>, Cory Doctorow (<\/i>Little Brother<\/i><\/b>)<\/i>, Ursula K. Le Guin (<\/i>The Dispossessed<\/i><\/b>)<\/i>, Robert A. Heinlein (<\/i>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress<\/i><\/b>)<\/i>, Sarah Hoyt (<\/i>Darkship Thieves<\/i><\/b>)<\/i>, George Orwell (<\/i>1984, Animal Farm<\/i><\/b>)<\/i>, Terry Pratchett (<\/i>Night Watch<\/i><\/b>)<\/i>, Ayn Rand (<\/i>Atlas Shrugged, Anthem<\/i><\/b>)<\/i>, L. Neil Smith (<\/i>The Probability Broach<\/i><\/b>)<\/i>, Neal Stephenson (<\/i>Cryptonomicon<\/i><\/b>)<\/i>, J.R.R.Tolkien (<\/i>The Lord of the Rings<\/i><\/b>)<\/i>, Vernor Vinge (<\/i>A Deepness in the Sky, <\/i><\/b>\u201cThe Ungoverned,\u201d \u201cTrue Names\u201d<\/b>)<\/i>, and Kurt Vonnegut (\u201cHarrison Bergeron<\/b>\u201d).<\/p>\n * Read our review-essay appreciations at www.lfs.org\/blog\/<\/a> describing how each of our 106 winners since 1979 fits our award and why they deserved recognition.<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/b>Lfs.org<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Note: For more information about this year’s World Science Fiction Convention in Seattle, visit the Seattle Worldcon website<\/a>. ABOUT THE PROMETHEUS AWARDS AND THE LFS<\/b><\/p>\n *\u00a0Join us!<\/b> To help sustain the Prometheus Awards and support a cultural and literary strategy to appreciate and honor freedom-loving fiction, \u00a0join<\/a> the Libertarian Futurist Society, a non-profit all-volunteer association of freedom-loving sf\/fantasy fans.<\/p>\n Libertarian futurists understand that culture matters. We believe that literature and the arts can be vital in envisioning a freer and better future. In some ways, culture can be even more influential and powerful than politics in the long run, by imagining better visions of the future incorporating peace, prosperity, progress, tolerance, justice, positive social change, and mutual respect for each other\u2019s rights, human dignity, individuality and peaceful choices.<\/p>\n * Prometheus winners:\u00a0<\/b>For a full list of Prometheus winners, finalists and nominees \u2013 including in the annual Best Novel and Best Classic Fiction (Hall of Fame) categories and occasional Special Awards \u2013 visit the enhanced \u00a0Prometheus Awards page<\/a>\u00a0on the LFS website. This page includes convenient links to all published essay-reviews in our Appreciation series explaining why each of more than 100 past winners since 1979 fits the awards\u2019 distinctive dual focus on both quality and liberty.<\/p>\n *\u00a0Watch videos 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.<\/a><\/p>\n * Read \u201cThe Libertarian History of Science Fiction,\u201d<\/a> an essay in the international magazine\u00a0Quillette<\/i>\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 * Check out the Libertarian Futurist Society\u2019s Facebook page<\/a> for comments, updates and links to the latest Prometheus Blog posts.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To raise the visibility of the Prometheus Awards and reach out to recruit new members of the Libertarian Futurist Society, the LFS has created a new full-page ad, accented by our updated logo – just in time for the Seattle Worldcon. 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\nIf you love liberty and sf\/fantasy, then join the Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) and support the Prometheus Awards!<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u2014 ’40 Years of the Prometheus Award’\u201d (TOR.com)<\/b><\/p>\n
\n\u2014 \u201cThe Libertarian History of Science Fiction,\u201d Quillette magazine (quillette.com)<\/b><\/p>\n
\n\u2014 The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction<\/b><\/p>\n
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