WINNERS: 2014 Prometheus Awards
The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the winners of the for the 2014 Prometheus Award, recognizing pro-freedom novels published in the last year, and the Hall of Fame Award for best classic fiction:
The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the finalists for the 2014 Prometheus Award, recognizing pro-freedom novels published in the last year, and the Hall of Fame Award for best classic fiction:
- Homeland by Cory Doctorow (Tor)
- Nexus by Ramez Naam (Angry Robot)
This category honors novels, novellas, stories, graphic novels, anthologies, films, TV shows/series, plays, poems, music recordings and other works of fiction first published or broadcast more than five years ago.
- Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold (1988)
Author-filksinger Leslie Fish also won a Special Prometheus Award in 2014 for the combination of her 2013 novella “Tower of Horses” and her filk song “The Horsetamer’s Daughter”.
The awards will be presented in a ceremony during the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention at 8 p.m. Aug. 16, 2014.
In a separate awards ceremony, four-time-Prometheus-winning author Vernor Vinge will receive a Special Prometheus Lifetime Achievement Award to be presented during Conjecture/ConChord Oct. 10-12, 2014 in San Diego, California.
Interesting that best novel was a tie vote. Homeland had more accomplished prose technique, warmer characterization and tech speculation relevant to today. Nexus had flashier, farther future speculation inside a more conventional thriller plot. They’re both great books.