Prometheus Awards, an update

The Prometheus Awards honor works of science fiction and fantasy, broadly defined, that uphold libertarian values or dramatize pro-freedom or anti-authoritarian themes.

Eligibility for Best Novel is limited to novels published between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31,—or, if previously overlooked, published in November or December of the previous year.

Eligibility for Hall of Fame is limited to works first published or broadcast in English at least five years ago. Such works may include anthologies, novels, novellas, short stories, plays, poems, comic books, graphic novels, movies, TV episodes, TV series, etc. (Previous Prometheus Award winners for Best Novel are not eligible.)

Special Awards, which are not automatically presented annually but only when deserved, have gone to libertarian anthologies (including Free Space, the first explicitly libertarian sf anthology), graphic novels (the recent adaptation of L. Neil Smith’s The Probability Broach) and individuals (Poul Anderson) for lifetime achievement.

Who to Contact for Nominations:

Best Novel—Chair Michael Grossberg (bestNovelChair@lfs.org, 614-236-5040)

Hall of Fame—Chair Lynn Maners (HallOfFame@lfs.org)

Special Awards—Chair Rick Triplett (publicity@lfs.org)

Here are the works nominated this year—as of mid-December—in the three Prometheus categories:

Best Novel nominees

• Chainfire, by Terry Goodkind (TOR Books)
• Reflex, by Stephen Gould (TOR Books)
• Noble Vision, by Gen LaGreca (Winged Victory Press)
• The Black Arrow, by Vin Suprynowicz (Mountain Media)
• Accelerando, by Charles Stross (Ace/Putnam Books)
• Infernal, by F. Paul Wilson (Forge Books)
• RebelFire: Out of the Gray Zone, by Claire Wolfe and Aaron Zelman (RebelFire Press at www.rebelfirerock.com)
• The Weapon (Freehold War) by Michael Z. Williamson (Baen Books)
• Mists of Everness, by John C. Wright (TOR Books)

Special award nominees:

• Serenity—film based on the TV series
• Tom Paine Maru—revision and website-based republication of L. Neil Smith’s 1984 novel

Hall of Fame nominees:

• “As Easy as A.B.C.”—short story by Rudyard Kipling (1912)
• Blake’s 7—British TV series, by main writer Terry Nation (1978-1981)
• A Clockwork Orange—novel by Anthony Burgess (1963)
• Circus World—novel by Barry Longyear (1980)
• The Girl Who Owned a City—novel by O.T. Nelson (1977)
• “The End of the Line”—short story by James H. Schmitz (1951)
• “Even the Queen”—short story by Connie Willis (1992)
• Infinity Hold—novel by Barry Longyear (1989)
• It Can’t Happen Here—novel by Sinclair Lewis (1936)
• The Lord of the Rings—a trilogy of novels by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)
• A Mirror for Observers—novel by Edgar Pangborn (1954)
• Subspace Explorers—novel by Edward E. Smith (1965)
• A Time of Changes—novel by Robert Silverberg
• Time Will Run Back—novel by Henry Hazlitt (revised 1966)
• 2112—music album/set of songs, by Rush (1976)
• V for Vendetta—graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd (1981-1990)