The Prometheus Award is a big deal in science fiction.
The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society, which also publishes a quarterly journal Prometheus. L. Neil Smith established the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newly founded Libertarian Futurist Society revived it in 1982. The Society created a Hall of Fame Award (for classic works of libertarian science fiction, not necessarily novels) in 1983, and also presents occasional one-off awards.
The winners are the leading authors in their field and a highly distinguished bunch (even I’ve heard of most of them, and I’m not much of a sci-fi reader.)
Anyway…..
May I please hear a drumroll?
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Yesterday the 2011 Prometheus Best Novel Finalists were announced, and they include our own Sarah Hoyt!
The Prometheus Award finalists for Best Novel are (in alphabetical order by author):
- For the Win, by Cory Doctorow (TOR Books)
- Darkship Thieves, by Sarah Hoyt (Baen Books)
- The Last Trumpet Project, by Kevin MacArdry lasttrumpetproject.com
- Live Free or Die, by John Ringo (Baen Books)
- Ceres, by L. Neil Smith (Big Head Press, also published online at bigheadpress.com )
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Darkship Thieves features an exciting, coming-of-age saga in which a heroic woman fights for her freedom and identity against a tyrannical Earth. Hoyt’s novel depicts a plausible anarchist society among the asteroids. This is Hoyt’s first time as Prometheus finalist.
Incredibly cool. We are very proud of Sarah and hope she wins.
The neat thing about this award is that unlike the Oscars, Sarah won’t have to kiss Sean Penn.
Of course, if Coco reads this she might want a kiss…
CONGRATULATIONS SARAH!
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Thank you, Eric, and I’d MUCH rather kiss Coco than Sean Penn. 🙂
For some reason it’s really hard for me to do this type of thing. It was realy hard to announce it on my blog. I think it’s because it’s so rare it feels somehow… like if someone notices they’ll take it away.
Anyway, I had to announce it on my blog, some of my fans only read that, so I wrote about my feelings, there. http://accordingtohoyt.com/2011/04/05/recognition-and-accolades/
Sarah, please feel free to announce as much as you wish! (And please feel free to cross post that.)
And Coco says she would MUCH prefer a kiss from you than from Sean Penn.
However, she wouldn’t mind a kiss from the good Sean….
Congratulations and Good Luck to Sarah!
On a slightly related note, Glenn Reynolds is hawking (looking at?) this book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596981555/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwviolentkicom&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1596981555
(The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution)
Sorry about putting it here, but I wanted to make you aware of it and I didn’t see a better place to put it.
Sarah, congratulations on the nomination, and I hope you win.
Congrats and best of luck, Sarah!