Annual award for libertarian science fiction novels
Prometheus Award
Awarded for
The best science fiction or fantasy fiction promoting individual freedom and human rights, or critiquing tyranny, slavery war and other abuses of government power.
Country
United States
Presented by
Libertarian Futurist Society
First awarded
1979
Currently held by
Dave Freer (Cloud Castles)
Website
lfs.org
The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society. American author and activist L. Neil Smith established the Best Novel category for the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newly founded Libertarian Futurist Society revived it in 1982. The Society created a Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (for classic works of libertarian and anti-authoritarian science fiction and fantasy, not necessarily novels) in 1983, and also presents occasional one-off Special Awards.
While the Best Novel category is limited to novels published in English for the first time during the previous calendar year, Hall of Fame nominees — which must have been published at least 20 years ago — may be in any narrative or dramatic form, including novels, novellas, stories, films, television series or episodes, plays, musicals, graphic novels, song lyrics, or verse.
The Best Novel winner receives a plaque with a one-ounce gold coin, and the Hall of Fame winner a plaque with a smaller gold coin.
The PrometheusAward is an award for libertarian science fiction given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society. American author and activist L. Neil...
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created two cartoons in which Prometheus appears - The Return from Olympus (Возвращение с Олимпа, 1969) and Prometheus (Прометей, 1974), as part of her...
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an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association and won the 2011 PrometheusAward. A film...
American writer Ira Levin, about a technocratic dystopia. Levin won a PrometheusAward in 1992 for this novel. This Perfect Day is one of two Levin novels...
Blight. It was nominated for the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the PrometheusAward. Two years pass after the Battle on Starship...
Sword of Truth, and the first in a trilogy. It was nominated for the PrometheusAward. During a raid on his camp, Richard is seriously wounded and now Nicci...
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for the Nebula Award for Best Novel that same year. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and the PrometheusAward in 1990. The novel...
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