The Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) has announced A Kiss for Damocles by J. Kenton Pierce (Raconteur) [amazon / bookshop] as the winner of the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category, honoring pro-freedom works published in 2025. Other nominees were:

Brave New World, a 1932 title by Aldous Huxley (Chatto & Windus), is the winner of the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award for Best Classic Fiction. Other finalists were:

Nominees for Hall of Fame may be in any narrative or dramatic form, including prose fiction, stage plays, film, television, other video, graphic novels, song lyrics, or epic or narrative verse; they must explore themes relevant to libertarianism and must be science fiction, fantasy, or related genres. All members of the Libertarian Futurist Society were eligible to vote.

“The 46th annual Prometheus Awards will be presented online Sunday afternoon Aug. 16, 2026, in a zoom awards ceremony open to the public. This year’s hourlong ceremony, tentatively scheduled for 2-3 p.m. Eastern time and emceed by LFS President William H. Stoddard, will feature a guest speaker: Lifelong science-fiction fan Ilya Somin (George Mason University law professor, Cato Institute scholar and author), who will present the Hall of Fame award.”

For more information, see the official press release.

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SF poet and author Suzette Haden Elgin is the winner of the 2026 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, intended to bring attention to lesser-known SF and fantasy authors. Her first story publication, “For the Sake of Grace”, was in F&SF in 1969. She wrote several SF series leaning into her background in linguistics and was the founder of the SFPA, now the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association.

The award was announced at Readercon 35, held July 9-12, 2026 in Burlington MA. The jury members are Ann VanderMeer, Steven H Silver, and Rich Horton.

For more information about the award, see the Wikipedia page.

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