Prometheus Award

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; however, 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.

Prometheus Blog Appreciation Series

Since 2019, LFS members have launched an Appreciation series of review-essays honoring all past winners and making clear why each work of fiction fits the distinctive focus of the award – something that was viewed as not necessarily obvious to sf/fantasy fans unfamiliar with the broad scope of libertarian thinking and analysis, which often overlaps with classical liberalism, its philosophical cousin.

Each Appreciation review-essay is published on the Prometheus Blog at https://www.lfs.org/blog/ and then linked next to each winning title on the past-winners list posted on the LFS website's Prometheus Awards page.

Multiple recipients

Some authors have won the award for best novel more than once:

Thrice

• Cory Doctorow
• Victor Koman
• Ken MacLeod
• L. Neil Smith

Twice

• Travis J. I. Corcoran
• Michael F. Flynn
• James P. Hogan
• Neal Stephenson
• Vernor Vinge
• F. Paul Wilson
• Daniel Suarez

Five authors have won the Prometheus Hall of Fame award more than once:

• Poul Anderson
• Robert Heinlein
• George Orwell
• Ayn Rand
• F. Paul Wilson

Process

Books published in a given year are eligible (although books from the last few months of the previous year are also eligible if it is felt that they have been overlooked).

1. All members may nominate novels for the award.
2. Members of the Best Novel Committee read all of the nominated novels (typically between 12 and 16) and vote for a slate of typically 5 finalists.
3. Full members, Sponsors and Benefactors (higher membership levels) then vote on the finalists.

Step 2 happens in the first few months of the following year.

Step 3 happens in early summer of the following year.

The awards are given at the Annual Worldcon or NASFIC or, during and since the pandemic, presented live via Zoom and then posted on YouTube and the Videos page of the LFS website (www.lfs.org).

Prometheus Award winners and finalists

  *   Winners   +   No winner selected

List of winners and finalists for the Prometheus Award

Year	Author	Novel	Publisher	Ref.
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Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Genesis Machine	Del Rey Books	<ref name="Loc79"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Template:Sort	Del Rey Books	<ref name="Loc82"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Alongside Night	Crown Publishers	<ref name="Loc82"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	An Enemy of the State	Doubleday	<ref name="Loc82"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Songs from the Stars	Simon & Schuster	<ref name="Loc82"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Tales of Nevèrÿon	Bantam Books	<ref name="Loc82"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Watcher	Ace Books	<ref name="Loc82"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Voyage from Yesteryear	Del Rey Books	<ref name="Loc83"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Fire Dancer	New American Library	<ref name="Loc83"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Friday	Holt, Rinehart and Winston	<ref name="Loc83"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Many-Colored Land	Houghton Mifflin	<ref name="Loc83"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname and Template:Sortname	Oath of Fealty	Phantasia Press	<ref name="Loc83"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The Rainbow Cadenza	Simon & Schuster	<ref name="Loc84"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Double Crossing	Putnam	<ref name="Loc84"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Nagasaki Vector	Del Rey Books	<ref name="Loc84"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Orion Shall Rise	Phantasia Press	<ref name="Loc84"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname and Template:Sortname	Thendara House	DAW Books	<ref name="Loc84"/>
Template:Sort	(no award)+			<ref name="Loc85"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Final Encyclopedia	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc85"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Manna	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Loc85"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Peace War	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Loc85"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Tom Paine Maru	Del Rey Books	<ref name="Loc85"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Tomb	Berkley Books	<ref name="Loc85"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The Cybernetic Samurai	Arbor House	<ref name="Loc86"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Elegy for a Soprano	Severn House	<ref name="Loc86"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Gallatin Divergence	Del Rey Books	<ref name="Loc86"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	A Matter of Time	Ace Books	<ref name="Loc86"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Radio Free Albemuth	Arbor House	<ref name="Loc86"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Marooned in Realtime	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Loc87"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Circuit	Berkley Books	<ref name="Loc87"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Crystal Empire	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc87"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	A Door into Ocean	Arbor House	<ref name="Loc87"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Handmaid's Tale	McClelland & Stewart	<ref name="Loc87"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The Jehovah Contract	Franklin Watts	<ref name="Loc88"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Circuit Breaker	Berkley Books	<ref name="Loc88"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	First Citizen	Baen Books	<ref name="Loc88"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Uplift War	Phantasia Press	<ref name="Loc88"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Way of the Pilgrim	Ace Books	<ref name="Loc88"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Moon of Ice	Arbor House	<ref name="Loc89"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	David's Sling	Baen Books	<ref name="Loc89"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Falling Free	Analog Science Fiction and Fact	<ref name="Loc89"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Final Circuit	Ace Books	<ref name="Loc89"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	To Sail Beyond the Sunset	Ace Books	<ref name="Loc89"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Solomon's Knife	Franklin Watts	<ref name="Loc90"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Boat of a Million Years	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc90"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Henry Martyn	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc90"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Infinity Hold	Questar	<ref name="Loc90"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Mirror Maze	Bantam Spectra	<ref name="Loc90"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	In the Country of the Blind	Baen Books	<ref name="Loc91"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Cybernetic Shogun	William Morrow and Company	<ref name="Loc91"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Tery	Baen Books	<ref name="Loc91"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Under the Yoke	Baen Books	<ref name="Loc91"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname and Template:Sortname	V for Vendetta	Warner Books	<ref name="Loc91"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname, Template:Sortname and Template:Sortname*	Fallen Angels	Baen Books	<ref name="Loc92"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Distant Drums	Domain	<ref name="Loc92"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	D'Shai	Ace Books	<ref name="Loc92"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Infinity Gambit	Bantam Books	<ref name="Loc92"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	ME: A Novel of Self-Discovery	Baen Books	<ref name="Loc92"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Silicon Man	Bantam Spectra	<ref name="Loc92"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Star Trek#57: The Rift	Pocket Books	<ref name="Loc92"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	A Tale of the Wind	Villard	<ref name="Loc92"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The Multiplex Man	Bantam Spectra	<ref name="Loc93"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Memory of Earth	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc93"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Snow Crash	Bantam Spectra	<ref name="Loc93"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Steel Beach	Ace Books	<ref name="Loc93"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Timemaster	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc93"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	A Woman's Place	American West Books	<ref name="Loc93"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Pallas	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc94"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Beggars in Spain	AvoNova/William Morrow	<ref name="Loc94"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Rainbow Man	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc94"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Silicon Man	Bantam Spectra	<ref name="Loc94"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Virtual Girl	Ace Books	<ref name="Loc94"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The Stars Are Also Fire	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc95"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Dark Rivers of the Heart	Charnel House	<ref name="Loc95"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Deadly Care (novel)	Vantage Press	<ref name="Loc95"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Select	Headline	<ref name="Loc95"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Solis	Hodder & Stoughton	<ref name="Loc95"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The Star Fraction	Legend Books	<ref name="Loc96"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	CLD: Collective Landing Detachment	AvoNova	<ref name="Loc96"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname and Template:Sortname	Design for Great-Day	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc96"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Diamond Age	Bantam Spectra	<ref name="Loc96"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Four Ways to Forgiveness	Harper Prism	<ref name="Loc96"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Kings of the High Frontier	Pulpless.com	<ref name="Loc97"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Firestar	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc97"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Paths to Otherwhere	Baen Books	<ref name="Loc97"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Sliders: the Novel	Boulevard Books	<ref name="Loc97"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Wildside	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc97"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The Stone Canal	Legend Books	<ref name="Loc98"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Bretta Martyn	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc98"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Finity's End	Warner Books	<ref name="Loc98"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Fleet of Stars	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc98"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Nanotime	Avon Books	<ref name="Loc98"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The Golden Globe	Ace Books	<ref name="Loc99"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname and Template:Sortname	Masque	Aspect/Warner Books	<ref name="Loc99"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Moonwar	Hodder & Stoughton	<ref name="Loc99"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Rogue Star	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc99"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Y2K: The Millennium Bug	Xlibris	<ref name="Loc99"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	A Deepness in the Sky	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc00"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Cassini Division	Orbit Books	<ref name="Loc00"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Cradle of Saturn	Baen Books	<ref name="Loc00"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Cryptonomicon	Avon Books	<ref name="Loc00"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Martian Race	Aspect/Warner Books	<ref name="Loc00"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The Forge of the Elders	Baen Books	<ref name="Loc01"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Eagle Against the Stars	Baen Books	<ref name="Loc01"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Lodestar	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc01"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Sky Road	Orbit Books	<ref name="Loc01"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Truth	HarperCollins	<ref name="Loc01"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Psychohistorical Crisis	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc02"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The American Zone	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc02"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Enemy Glory	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc02"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Falling Stars	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc02"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Hosts	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc02"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Night Watch	Doubleday	<ref name="Loc03"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Dark Light	Orbit Books	<ref name="Loc03"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Escape from Heaven	Pulpless.com	<ref name="Loc03"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Haunted Air	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc03"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Schild's Ladder	Gollancz	<ref name="Loc03"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Sims	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc04"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	Bloomsbury Publishing	<ref name="Loc04"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Naked Empire	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc04"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Pixel Eye	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc04"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Spin State	Bantam Spectra	<ref name="Loc04"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The System of the World	William Morrow	<ref name="Loc05"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname and Template:Sortname	Anarquia	Sense of Wonder Press	<ref name="Loc05"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Marque and Reprisal	Del Rey Books	<ref name="Loc05"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Newton's Wake: A Space Opera	Orbit Books	<ref name="Loc05"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	State of Fear	HarperCollins	<ref name="Loc05"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Learning the World	Orbit Books	<ref name="Loc06"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	47	Little, Brown	<ref name="Loc06"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Resistance	Mountain Media	<ref name="Loc06"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Chainfire	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc06"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Hidden Family	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc06"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname and Template:Sortname	RebelFire: Out of the Gray Zone	Rebelfire Press	<ref name="Loc06"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Glasshouse	Ace Books	<ref name="Loc07"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Empire	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc07"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Ghost Brigades	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc07"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Harbingers	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc07"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Rainbows End	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc07"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The Gladiator	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc08"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Ha'penny	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc08"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Execution Channel	Orbit Books	<ref name="Loc08"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname and Template:Sortname	Fleet of Worlds	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc08"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Ragamuffin	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc08"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Little Brother	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc09"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Half a Crown	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc09"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The January Dancer	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc09"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Matter	Orbit Books	<ref name="Loc09"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Opening Atlantis	Roc Books	<ref name="Loc09"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Saturn's Children	Ace Books	<ref name="Loc09"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The Unincorporated Man	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc10"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Hidden Empire	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc10"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Liberating Atlantis	Roc Books	<ref name="Loc10"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Makers	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc10"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The United States of Atlantis	Roc Books	<ref name="Loc10"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Darkship Thieves	Baen Books	<ref name="Loc11"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Ceres	Phoenix Pick	<ref name="Loc11"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	For the Win	Tor Books	<ref name="Loc11"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Last Trumpet Project	Lulu	<ref name="Loc11"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Live Free or Die	Baen Books	<ref name="Loc11"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Ready Player One	Random House	<ref name="LFS12"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The Freedom Maze	Big Mouth House	<ref name="LFS12"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Children of the Sky	Tor Books	<ref name="LFS12"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname and Template:Sortname	In the Shadow of Ares	Amazon Kindle	<ref name="LFS12"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Restoration Game	Orbit Books	<ref name="LFS12"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Snuff	Doubleday	<ref name="LFS12"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Pirate Cinema	Tor Books	<ref name="LFS13"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Arctic Rising	Tor Books	<ref name="LFS13"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Unincorporated Future	Tor Books	<ref name="LFS13"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Darkship Renegades	Baen Books	<ref name="LFS13"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Kill Decision	Dutton	<ref name="LFS13"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Homeland	Tor Books	<ref name="LFS14"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Nexus	Angry Robot	<ref name="LFS14"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	A Few Good Men	Baen Books	<ref name="LFS14"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Crux	Angry Robot	<ref name="LFS14"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Brilliance	Thomas & Mercer	<ref name="LFS14"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Influx	Dutton	<ref name="LFS15"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Three-Body Problem	Tor Books	<ref name="LFS15"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Raising Steam	Doubleday	<ref name="LFS15"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	A Better World	Thomas & Mercer	<ref name="LFS15"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	Seveneves	William Morrow and Company	<ref name="LFS16"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Golden Son	Del Rey Books	<ref name="LFS16"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Apex	Angry Robot	<ref name="LFS16"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Just City	Tor Books	<ref name="LFS16"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	A Borrowed Man	Tor Books	<ref name="LFS16"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The Core of the Sun	Grove Press	<ref name="LFS17"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Corporation Wars: Dissidence	Orbit Books	<ref name="LFS17"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Corporation Wars: Insurgence	Orbit Books	<ref name="LFS17"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047	HarperCollins	<ref name="LFS17"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Blade of p'Na	Phoenix Pick	<ref name="LFS17"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname*	The Powers of the Earth	Morlock Publishing	<ref name="LFS18"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname and Template:Sortname	Drug Lord: High Ground	High Ground Books	<ref name="LFS18"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Torchship, Torchship Pilot and Torchship Captain	Kelt Haven Press	<ref name="LFS18"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Darkship Revenge	Baen Books	<ref name="LFS18"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Corporation Wars: Emergence	Orbit Books	<ref name="LFS18"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Artemis	Crown Books	<ref name="LFS18"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Causes of Separation	Morlock Publishing	<ref name="LFS19"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Kingdom of the Wicked	Ligature Pty Limited	<ref name="LFS19"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	State Tectonics	Tor Books	<ref name="LFS19"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Fractal Man	Steve Heller Publishing	<ref name="LFS19"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Murderbot Diaries	Tor Books	<ref name="LFS19"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname and Template:Sortname	Alliance Rising	DAW	<ref name="LFS20"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Testaments	Random House: Nan A. Talese	<ref name="LFS20"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Ruin's Wake	Titan Books	<ref name="LFS20"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Luna: Moon Rising	Tor Books	<ref name="LFS20"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Ode to Defiance	LMBPN Publishing	<ref name="LFS20"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	The Hook	Enchanteds	<ref name="LFS21"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Who Can Own the Stars?	Amazon Kindle	<ref name="LFS21"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Storm between the Stars	Kelt Haven Press	<ref name="LFS21"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Braintrust: Requiem	LMBPN Publishing	<ref name="LFS21"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Heaven's River	Amazon	<ref name="LFS21"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Rich Man's Sky	Baen Books	<ref name="LFS22"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Between Home and Ruin	Kelt Haven Press	<ref name="LFS22"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Seize What's Held Dear	Kelt Haven Press	<ref name="LFS22"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Klara and the Sun	Faber and Faber	<ref name="LFS22"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Should We Stay or Should We Go	HarperCollins	<ref name="LFS22"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Cloud Castles	Magic Isle Press	<ref name="LFS23"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Widowland	Quercus	<ref name="LFS23"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Captain Trader Helmsman Spy	Kelt Haven Press	<ref name="LFS23"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	A Beast Cannot Feign	Amazon	<ref name="LFS23"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Summer's End	Baen Books	<ref name="LFS23"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Critical Mass	Dutton	<ref name="LFS24"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Lord of a Shattered Land	Baen Books	<ref name="LFS24"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Swim Among the People	Kelt Haven Press	<ref name="LFS24"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	God's Girlfriend	Amazon	<ref name="LFS24"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1	Devon Eriksen LLC	<ref name="LFS24"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname and Template:Sortname	Alliance Unbound	DAW	<ref name="LFS25"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	In the Belly of the Whale	CAEZIK SF & Fantasy	<ref name="LFS25"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Cancelled: The Shape of Things to Come	Annie Mosse Press	<ref name="LFS25"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Beggar's Sky	Baen Books	<ref name="LFS25"/>
Template:Sort	Template:Sortname	Mania	HarperCollins	<ref name="LFS25"/>

Hall of Fame Award inductees

• 1983: Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress | Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• 1984: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four | Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• 1985: Poul Anderson, Trader to the Stars | Eric Frank Russell, The Great Explosion
• 1986: Cyril Kornbluth, The Syndic | Robert Anton Wilson / Robert Shea, Illuminatus! trilogy
• 1987: Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land | Ayn Rand, "Anthem"
• 1988: Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination
• 1989: J. Neil Schulman, Alongside Night
• 1990: F. Paul Wilson, The Healer
• 1991: F. Paul Wilson, An Enemy of the State
• 1992: Ira Levin, This Perfect Day
• 1993: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
• 1994: Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
• 1995: Poul Anderson, The Star Fox
• 1996: Robert A. Heinlein, Red Planet
• 1997: Robert A. Heinlein, Methuselah's Children
• 1998: Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
• 1999: H. Beam Piper / John J. McGuire, A Planet for Texans (also known as Lone Star Planet)
• 2000: Hans Christian Andersen, "The Emperor's New Clothes"
• 2001: Jerry Pournelle / John F. Carr (editors), The Survival of Freedom
• 2002: Patrick McGoohan, The Prisoner (TV series)
• 2003: Robert A. Heinlein, "Requiem"
• 2004: Vernor Vinge, "The Ungoverned"
• 2005: A. E. van Vogt, The Weapon Shops of Isher
• 2006: Alan Moore (author) / David Lloyd (illustrator), V for Vendetta (graphic novel)
• 2007: Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here | Vernor Vinge, True Names
• 2008: Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
• 2009: J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
• 2010: Poul Anderson, "No Truce with Kings"
• 2011: George Orwell, Animal Farm
• 2012: E. M. Forster, "The Machine Stops"
• 2013: Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
• 2014: Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free
• 2015: Harlan Ellison, "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"
• 2016: Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite
• 2017: Robert A. Heinlein, "Coventry"
• 2018: Jack Williamson, "With Folded Hands"
• 2019: Kurt Vonnegut, "Harrison Bergeron"
• 2020: Poul Anderson, "Sam Hall"
• 2021: F. Paul Wilson, "Lipidleggin'Template:-"
• 2022: Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy
• 2023: Robert A. Heinlein, "Free Men"
• 2024: Terry Pratchett, The Truth

Special Award recipients

• 1998: Brad Linaweaver and Edward E. Kramer: editors, Free Space (anthology)
• 2001: Poul Anderson, Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement
• 2005: Mark Tier and Martin H. Greenberg: editors, Give Me Liberty and Visions of Liberty (anthologies for Baen Books)
• 2005: L. Neil Smith (writer) and Scott Bieser (illustrator), The Probability Broach: The Graphic Novel
• 2006: Joss Whedon (writer-director), Serenity
• 2007: James McTeigue (director) and the Wachowskis (screenplay), V for Vendetta (motion picture)
• 2014: Vernor Vinge, Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement
• 2014: Leslie Fish, Tower of Horses (novella) and "The Horsetamer's Daughter" (song)
• 2015: F. Paul Wilson, Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement
• 2016: L. Neil Smith, Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement
• 2016: Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn, Alex + Ada
• 2017: Mark Stanley, Freefall (webcomic)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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See also

• Anarcho-capitalist literature
• Libertarianism

External links

• Prometheus award page