Editing Prometheus Award (section)

{{short description|Annual award for libertarian science fiction novels}}
{{Infobox award
| name = Prometheus Award
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| imagesize = 150px
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| current_awards = 
| 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.
| presenter = [[Libertarian Futurist Society]]
| country = United States
| location = 
| year = 1979
| holder = Dave Freer (''Cloud Castles'')
| website = [http://lfs.org/awards.shtml 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; 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.