Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 12:21:36 +0200 (MET DST) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi-AT-statistik.uni-dortmund.de> Subject: Best Libertarian Science Fiction: Prometheus Awards/Hall of Fame Greetings technology lists, [Hi, --I thought --this might interest you --The Libertarian Futurist Society has chosen finalists for its annual Prometheus Award for Best Novel and its annual Prometheus Hall of Fame for Classic Fiction. Including other award winners, in the 1999 Prometheus Award finalists, "The Cassini Division," by Ken MacLeod (TOR Books) and "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson (Avon Books) are also there. And, for the 2000 Prometheus Hall of Fame finalists, with others "The Emperor's New Clothes", by Hans Christian Andersen (1830s) "Orion Shall Rise," by Poul Anderson, (1970s) and "Mirror Maze," by James Hogan (1980s) are there. For more details, please surf down. Also, the Hall of Fame, established in 1983, focuses on older classic fiction, including novels, novellas, short stories, poems and plays. Past Hall of Fame award winners range from Robert Heinlein and Ayn Rand to Ray Bradbury and Ursula LeGuin. Thank you. Welcome in world of Science Fiction and enjoy it. --Arun] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:16:39 -0400 From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt-AT-coil.com> To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt-AT-coil.com> [--] [Note from Matthew Gaylor: The Libertarian Futurist Society will celebrate its 20th anniversary by holding its first national conference over Memorial Day weekend, 2001, in Columbus, Ohio, as part of Marcon 36, Ohio's oldest and largest sci-fi/fantasy convention. Details follow at the end of this message. Over the past few years I've had the pleasure serving as a finalist judge and as an advisory member.] From: Mikegrossb-AT-aol.com Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 22:07:26 EDT Subject: News release: Prometheus Awards/Hall of Fame finalists announced! For immediate release: June 11, 2000 Libertarian Futurist Society announces Prometheus Award finalists, Hall of Fame finalists The Libertarian Futurist Society has chosen finalists for its annual Prometheus Award for Best Novel and its annual Prometheus Hall of Fame for Classic Fiction. The winners will be announced over the Labor Day weekend in Chicago in an awards ceremony at the World Science Fiction Convention. The 1999 Prometheus Award finalists (for the 2000 award): "The Martian Race’" by Gregory Benford (Warner Aspect) "Cradle of Saturn’" by James Hogan (Baen Books) "The Cassini Division,"’ by Ken MacLeod (TOR Books) "Cryptonomicon’" by Neal Stephenson (Avon Books) "A Deepness in the Sky,"’ by Vernor Vinge (TOR Books) The 2000 Prometheus Hall of Fame finalists: "The Emperor's New Clothes,’’ by Hans Christian Andersen (1830s) "Orion Shall Rise,"’ by Poul Anderson,’’ (1970s) "Mirror Maze,"’ by James Hogan (1980s) "It Can't Happen Here,"’ by Sinclair Lewis (1930s) "The Wardove,"’ by L. Neil Smith (1980s ?) Both awards honor outstanding science fiction/fantasy that explores the possibilities of a free future, champions human rights (including personal and economic liberty), dramatizes the perennial conflict between individuals and coercive governments, or critiques the tragic consequences of abuse of power-- especially by the State. The Prometheus Award, sponsored by the Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS), was established in 1979, making it one of the most enduring awards after the Nebula and Hugo awards, and one of the oldest fan-based awards currently in sf. Presented annually since 1982 at the World Science Fiction Convention, the Prometheus Awards include a gold coin and plaque for the winners. The Hall of Fame, established in 1983, focuses on older classic fiction, including novels, novellas, short stories, poems and plays. Past Hall of Fame awardwinners range from Robert Heinlein and Ayn Rand to Ray Bradbury and Ursula LeGuin. Last year's Prometheus Award winner for Best Book, presented at the Anaheim, Calif. NASFIC, was John Varley’s “The Golden Globe’’ (ACE/Berkley Books). Last year’s Prometheus Award Hall of Fame winner for Classic Fiction was H. Beam Piper and John McGuire’s “A Planet For Texans’’ (1958)-- also known as “Lone Star Planet.’’ Michael Grossberg, New Visions sci-fi book columnist at The Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio), chairs the Prometheus Awards Finalist Judges committee. All LFS Advisory members vote on the Prometheus Award from a list of five finalists selected by a 10-member LFS Prometheus Award Finalist judging committee, based on nominations from the entire LFS membership. LFS Director Victoria Varga chaired last year's Prometheus Hall of Fame Finalist Judges committee. All LFS Basic and Advisory members choose the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award from a list of finalists selected by a separate LFS Hall of Fame Finalist judging committee, based on nominations from the entire LFS membership. The Prometheus Award was founded in 1979 when a group led by L. Neil Smith presented the first award to F. Paul Wilson for “Wheels Within Wheels.” Other Prometheus winners include Vernor Vinge, Ken MacLeod, James P. Hogan, Brad Linaweaver, Victor Koman, Poul Anderson, J. Neil Schulman Victor Milan, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, and Smith (who since 1979 has not been associated with the awards judging.) For more information, contact LFS Director Victoria Varga (vvarga-AT-compuserve.com, 716-248-5646), LFS co-founder Michael Grossberg ( 614-236-5040, mikegrossb-AT-aol.com) or awards ceremony coordinator Fred Moulton (moulton-AT-moulton.com) Publishers who wish to submit 2000 novels for consideration should contact Michael Grossberg (614-236-5040), Chair of the LFS Prometheus Awards Finalist judging committee. Write Grossberg, c/o The Dispatch, 34 S. Third St., Columbus, OH 43215). The Libertarian Futurist Society's Prometheus awardwinners Founded in 1982, the Libertarian Futurist Society sponsors the annual Prometheus Award and Prometheus Hall of Fame, publishes reviews, news and columns in the quarterly “Prometheus,” arranges annual awards ceremonies at the Worldcon, debates libertarian futurist issues (such as private space exploration) and provides fun and fellowship for libertarian-SF fans. Here are the past winners of the Prometheus Awards and Hall of Fame: Prometheus Award winners* Wheels Within Wheels, by F. Paul Wilson (1979) The Probability Broach, by L. Neil Smith (1982) Voyage From Yesteryear, by James Hogan (1983) The Rainbow Cadenza , by J. Neil Schulman (1984) Cybernetic Samurai, by Victor Milan (1986) Marooned in Real Time, Vernor Vinge (1987) The Jehovah Contract by Victor Koman (1988) Moon of Ice, by Brad Linaweaver (1989) Soloman’s Knife, by Victor Koman (1990 In the Country of the Blind, by Michael Flynn (1991) Fallen Angels, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (1992) The Multiplex Man by James Hogan (1993) Pallas by L. Neil Smith (1994) The Stars Are Also Fire, by Poul Anderson (1995) The Star Fraction, by Ken MacLeod (1996) Kings of the High Frontier, by Victor Koman (1997) The Stone Canal, by Ken MacLeod (1998) The Golden Globe, by John Varley (1999) * None of the Above” won in 1985, and no awards were given in 1980 and 1981. Prometheus Hall of Fame winners Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1983) Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (1983) George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1984) Poul Anderson’s Trader to the Stars (1985) Eric Frank Russell’s The Great Explosion (1985) C.M. Kornbluth’s The Syndic, (1986) Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus trilogy. (1986) Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land (1987) Ayn Rand’s Anthem (1987) Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination (1988) J. Neil Schulman’s Alongside Night (1989) F. Paul Wilson’s Healer (1990) F. Paul Wilson’s An Enemy of the State (1991) Ira Levin’s This Perfect Day (1992) Ursula LeGuin’s The Dispossessed (1993) Yevgeni Zamiatin’s We (1994) Poul Anderson’s The Star Fox (1995) Robert Heinlein’s The Red Planet (1996) Robert Heinlein’s Methuselah’s Children (1997) Robert Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love ·(1998) H. Beam Piper and John McGuire’s A Planet for Texans (Lone Star Planet) (1999) ### From: Mikegrossb-AT-aol.com Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 14:23:40 EDT Subject: Your invitation to join the LFS at its first con next year! I thought you'd be interested in being among the first to hear some exciting official news: the Libertarian Futurist Society will celebrate its 20th anniversary by holding its first national conference over Memorial Day weekend, 2001, in Columbus, Ohio, as part of Marcon 36, Ohio's oldest and largest sci-fi/fantasy convention. If you are interested in attending this event-- either under your own steam, if you're a friend or fellow libertarian, or as one of Marcon's or the LFS's special guests of honor, if you're a published novelist-- please let me know before the end of June, if you can. (Please also include your mailing address, email and regular name, and a contact phone number, so we can send you more info and follow up.) Anyone can attend this fun culturally-oriented event: LFS members, Prometheus Awardwinning novelists, their family and friends, libertarians and sf fans from across the country and the general public. Not only that: Marcon will offer a special advance discount registration for LFS members, their family and friends, and other libertarians. While we are planning to a special LFS membership offer during this next year as part of our 20th anniversary membership drive/celebration, you don't have to join the LFS to join the fun next May 25-27, 2001, in Columbus!! For a free (and fun) future, Michael Grossberg Co-founder, Libertarian Futurist Society Chair, LFS Prometheus Awards Finalist Judging Committee P.S. Here is the full email alert that was just sent out to all online Libertarian Futurist Society members: ---------------------------------------- For the past three years, LFS members have discussed ways to celebrate our upcoming 20th anniversary in 2001, and whether it's time to hold our first LFS conference. You may recall reading an article in Prometheus last year proposing that the LFS meet over Memorial Day weekend in 2001 as part of Marcon, Ohio's oldest and largest science fiction, fantasy, media and science convention. Well, now it's official: Marcon organizers are rolling out the red carpet for us, and LFS leaders have voted in favor of accepting Marcon's very gracious offer. Much more on this later-- in Prometheus and by email-- as we invite and confirm many of the Prometheus Award winning novelists and LFS members that we hope to include on many Marcon panel discussions, etc. But here's the first official announcement, so you can put the dates on your calendar and start planning to join us for what should be the most fun-- and only culturally oriented-- libertarian convention of 2001: The LIBERTARIAN FUTURIST SOCIETY will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2001 with its first national conference!! “FreeFenCon’’ May 25-27, 2001 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Downtown Columbus, OH MARCON 36, Ohio’s oldest and largest science fiction, fantasy, media and science convention, will host the LFS’s first conference. * MARCON, which annually attracts between 2,000 and 3,000 people from 25 states, offers a 125-table dealer’s room, a large art show/auction, a fun masquerade/dance (usually DJ'ed by California's Dr. Demento), six simultaneous program tracks of panel discussions, writer’s workshops, gaming rooms, and video screenings (including libertarian sf films) ; children’s programming and a 24-hour con suite with free refreshments. * The LFS will present its Prometheus Hall of Fame awards to classic libertarian fiction during Marcon’s Saturday night masquerade! (Our 2001 Prometheus Award for Best Book will continue to be presented, as it usually is, at the 2001 Worldcon, which will take place over Labor Day weekend in Philadelphia.) * JAMES HOGAN (“Voyage From Yesteryear,’’ “The Multiplex Man’’) will be Marcon’s “Prometheus Awards Guest of Honor.” * Marcon also is inviting Grand Master POUL ANDERSON (“No Truce With Kings, “Trader to the Stars,’’ “Operation Chaos.’’) * The LFS also hopes to invite other Prometheus Awardwinners to be LFS Guests of Honor. Who would you like us to invite? Please let us know! Our conference budget is limited, but we are asking LFS members who register to earmark a separate check for a Speakers Travel Fund, so we can help pay for at least a substantial part of the airfare for our most important guests of honor. * Prometheus winner Brad Linaweaver (“Sliders,’’ “Moon of Ice’’), who is an enthusiastic supporter of the LFS meeting at Marcon, already has confirmed that he will attend, because Brad is part of the LFS convention organizing committee, which also includes all four LFS Advisory members in Ohio: Michael Grossberg, Matt Gaylor, Joseph Martino and Jeff Wolfe.) * Other confirmed LFS guests and Marcon panelists: LFS Director Victoria Varga, LFS founder and newspaper journalist Michael Grossberg, libertarian author/sf writer Joseph Martino (“Science Funding: Politics & Porkbarrel’’) & sf author Steve Burgauer (“The Grandfather Paradox’’). * MARCON also will host a dozen other guests, including author Robert Jordan, artist Ellisa Mitchell, and major sf editors, comix artists, gamers, TV actors, scientists. * If you would like to be a Marcon panelist, let us know. Just send your bio and what types of panel subjects you'd enjoy talking about, to Michael Grossberg (mikegrossb-AT-aol.com). Marcon's program director is very receptive to including at least one or two dozen LFS members (not just sf authors, but libertarian activists, journalists, editors, booksellers, publishers, artists, and issue experts) on as many of their 50-60 panel discussions as possible. * Marcon is arranging special discount rates for the Hyatt Regency hotel and other nearby hotels (Red Roof Inn, Holiday Inn Crown Plaza, Courtyard by Marriott, etc.) We will provide this information in future updates. * Columbus, Ohio, pretty centrally located within LFS' farflung national membership, is rather inexpensive to fly to, since it's a very competitive air market, with no major airline dominating the city as a hub. Among the more competitive airlines: USAir, Delta, America West, Southwest Airlines, United, TWA. * Advance registration: Only $35 before Dec. 31, 2000. (That includes a $25 check made out to Marcon and a $10 check made out to the LFS, for our speakers' travel fund. Additional donations are welcome.) Send checks to LFS, c/o Michael Grossberg, 3164 Plymouth Place, Columbus, OH 43213. For more information, contact Michael Grossberg -mikegrossb-AT-aol.com, 614-236-5040. Or write Grossberg at 3164 Plymouth Place, Columbus, OH 43213. ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt-AT-coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per month) Matthew Gaylor,1933 E. Dublin-Granville Rd., PMB 176, Columbus, OH 43229 Archived at http://www.egroups.com/list/fa/ ************************************************************************** --- from list technology-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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