2012 Prometheus Award Winners
The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the 2012 Prometheus Award winners:
Best Novel (tie):
- Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Crown)
- The Freedom Maze, Delia Sherman (Small Beer)
- The Children of the Sky, Vernor Vinge (Tor)
- In the Shadow of Ares, Thomas L. James & Carl C. Carlsson (self published)
- The Restoration Game, Ken MacLeod (Pyr)
- Snuff, Terry Pratchett (Harper Collins)
Hall of Fame:
- “The Machine Stops”, E.M. Forster (1909)
- Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold (1988)
- “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman”, Harlan Ellison (1965)
- “As Easy as A.B.C.”, Rudyard Kipling (1912)
The Prometheus Awards will be presented at Chicon, the 70th annual World Science Fiction Convention, to be held August 30-September 3, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois. Delia Sherman, Ernest Cline and the estate of E.M. Forster will each receive a gold coin and plaque. This was the first Prometheus nomination for both Sherman and Cline.
