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Charles Stross Wins 2007 Prometheus Award for Glasshouse the Libertarian Futurist So- Trilogy by J.R.R Liberty Art & Culture Vol. 26, No. 1 Fall 2007 Charles Stross wins 2007 Prometheus Award for Glasshouse The Libertarian Futurist So- trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. ciety announced the winners The Prometheus awards honor out- of the Prometheus Awards in standing sf/fantasy that explores the pos- Yokohama, Japan at the 63rd sibilities of a free future, champions human World Science Fiction Conven- rights (including personal and economic tion. Charles Stross won this liberty), dramatizes the perennial conflict year’s award for Best Novel for between individuals and coercive govern- Glasshouse. There was a tie for the ments, or critiques the tragic consequences Hall of Fame Award, with It Can’t of abuse of power. Happen Here, a 1936 novel by Sin- The Prometheus Best Novel Award clair Lewis, and “True Names,” was founded in 1979 and the LFS took a 1981 novella by Vernor Vinge over sponsorship in 1982. The award is sharing the award. The Motion one of the most enduring awards after Picture, V For Vendetta, directed by the Nebula and Hugo awards, and one James McTeigue and with screen- of the oldest fan-based awards currently play by the Wachowski brothers in sf. Presented annually since 1982 at the has won a Special Award. World Science Fiction Convention, the This is Stross’s first Prometheus Prometheus Awards include a gold coin Best Novel Award. His The Hidden and plaque for each of the winners. Family was a finalist last year, and The Hall of Fame, established in 1983, its sequel, The Clan Corporate was focuses on classic fiction, including novels, nominated this year. Glasshouse novellas, short stories, poems and plays. takes place in the same universe as Accelerando, though at a Past Hall of Fame award winners range from Robert Heinlein much later point in its history. The themes of ubiquitous and Ayn Rand to Ray Bradbury and Ursula LeGuin. surveillance and the struggle to survive as an individual in the face of severe pressure to conform come through very clearly in this story of a distant future in which unrehabilitated war Inside Prometheus: criminals use every tool at their disposal to build a society that Book Reviews: they can control absolutely. Beyond Future Shock, by Alex Alaniz, Ph.D. Sinclair Lewis shared the Best Classic Fiction Award for Radio Freefall, by Matthew Jarpe his warning about the rise of totalitarianism, It Can’t Happen The Beguilement, by Lois McMaster Bujold Here, with Vernor Vinge’s classic short story, “True Names,” Legacy, by Lois McMaster Bujold which gave the public their first glimpse of cyberspace and Sagramanda, by Alan Dean Foster showed how the struggle for control might penetrate the new Transformers, by Alan Dean Foster medium. The motion picture V For Vendetta won a Special The Execution Channel, by Ken MacLeod Award for effectively dramatizing the ongoing erosion of The Gladiator, by Harry Turtledove freedom in the West and the virtue of resisting tyranny with Making Money, by Terry Pratchett determination and hope. Farthing, by Jo Walton; The other finalists for Best Novel were: Empire, by Orson Interview: Scott Card; The Ghost Brigades, by John Scalzi; Rainbows End, Jim Lesczynski, author of The Walton Street Tycoons by Vernor Vinge; and Harbingers, by F. Paul Wilson. The other Movie Review: finalists for the Hall of Fame award were: A Clockwork Orange, Transformers; Babylon 5: The Lost Tales by Anthony Burgess; “As Easy as A.B.C.,” by Rudyard Kipling; More Prometheus Awards coverage from Japan Animal Farm, by George Orwell; and The Lord of the Rings Prometheus Volume 26, Number 1, 2007 The Libertarian Futurist Society President — Chris Hibbert The newsletter of the Vice President — William H. Stoddard Libertarian Futurist Society Treasurer — Fred Curtis Moulton Secretary — Michael Grossberg Editor Director — Charles Morrison Anders Monsen Assistant Director — Steve Burgauer Contributors Fred Curtis Moulton Board members Geoffrey Allan Plauché David Tuchman Victoria Varga William H. Stoddard Joseph P. Martino Jorge Codina Rick Triplett Lynn Maners David Wayland Webmaster Tod Casasent Letters and Submissions: Farthing Anders Monsen By Jo Walton the same time, his superiors are pushing 501 Abiso Ave. Tor, 2006 for a straightforward accusation and a San Antonio, TX 78209 Reviewed by William H. Stoddard quick arrest. [email protected] The country house could be the setting Farthing is something of a tour de for one of Sayers’s mysteries, or even one force. It’s a classic British-style mur- of P. G. Wodehouse’s comedies. But if Subscriptions & Advertisements der mystery—Walton acknowledges it’s a Wodehousean story, it’s one where Libertarian Futurist Society Dorothy Sayers and Josephine Tey as all the characters’ intelligence has been 650 Castro St. Suite 120-433 inspirations—but set in an alternate turned up several notches. And there are Mountain View, CA 94041 history, one that apparently diverged in darker issues beneath the surface: British [email protected] the 1930s. It takes place in a different anti-Semitism and the criminal penalties LFS Online: 1949, one where the Nazis control the for homosexual acts that are still in force http://www.lfs.org European continent and are still at war in this timeline, as they were in the real with the Communists in the east. The 1949. As a Jew married to a daughter of Basic Membership: $25/yr ($30 int’l United States, under President Charles the British aristocracy, and as a bisexual, Full Membership: $50/yr Lindbergh, seems to have developed Kahn finds himself isolated. Sponsors: $100/yr its own sort of fascism, and is engaged Saying any more than that would give Benefactors: $200/yr in trade negotiations with the Japanese away too much of the plotline, which Subscriptions: $20/yr ($25 int’l) Empire. And Britain, after arriving at a readers ought to discover for themselves. All memberships include one-year sub- negotiated peace with the Nazis, remains I’ll say, instead, that this is one of the scriptions to Prometheus. proud of its traditional liberties and of most disturbing cautionary tales I’ve read Classified ads: 50 cents/word, 10 percent its empire. But this is also a cautionary in some time. And at the same time, it off for multiple insertions. Display ad tale about the easy downward path from offers characters who do the right thing rates available. All checks payable to the freedom to tyranny. under terrible circumstances, and, better Libertarian Futurist Society. The story starts with the discovery of yet, do it for the right reasons, as when a corpse at a country house owned by a minor character describes the political a leading British politician and his wife. crisis that grows out of the murder as “a The dead man himself was a highly re- terrible attack upon liberty” and later Prometheus © 2007 the Libertarian Futurist garded British politician, the man who says, “What you can’t pay back you pay Society. The LFS retains a non-exclusive negotiated peace terms with Hess. Sus- forward.” license to republish accepted articles on its Web site; all other rights revert to picion falls on one of the guests—David Reading Farthing isn’t likely to make the contributor. Letters and reviews are Kahn, the son-in-law of the host and you happy. A more likely reaction is the welcome. Bylined articles are strictly the hostess. A Scotland Yard inspector is sent pity and terror. Aristotle said tragedy was opinion of the writer and do not neces- to supervise the investigation, and finds designed to evoke. But it’s a long time sarily reflect the opinion of the LFS or the case’s complexities steadily increas- since I’ve read so powerful a political its members. ing as he looks for more evidence. At and cultural tragedy. Page 2 Volume 26, Number 1, 2007 Prometheus of state; that on that sore point all the Revolutions in OOK EVIEWS Britain and America had been for nothing. That America had been for nothing; that dismayed her. B R That’s not all that’s going on here; the novel’s ending is a complete surprise—even though MacLeod lays the ground- The Execution Channel work for it by his discussion of Heim Theory. This is actually By Ken MacLeod rather a good choice as a science-fictional premise: Heim’s Tor, 2007 work is fringe science, but unlike outright crackpot theories, Reviewed by William H. Stoddard it actually makes predictions, some of which are disturbingly accurate enough to give it a measure of literary credibility. An old joke about Hollywood says, “Start with an earth- Where many recent technothrillers have been about averted quake and build to a climax.” Ken MacLeod’s latest novel apocalypses, events that would transform the world if they does something very similar: in the first few pages, the central became known, MacLeod shows events that do transform the character gets a phone call telling him that a base in Scotland world. Whether this transformation is a libertarian one seems leased to the United States Air Force has been destroyed by debatable, and I’m not sure if this is a libertarian novel. Still, a nuclear bomb. After that, MacLeod really does carry the it certainly warns against things that libertarians also fear. reader forward to an unexpected climax. As this may sug- gest, this is something of a thriller, set in the very near future, something of a departure for MacLeod, whose previous fiction has largely dealt with the distant future, outer space, The Gladiator and radical transformations of humanity by new technology. By Harry Turtledove In this book, his concerns are terrorism, espionage, and the Tor, 2007 repressive policies adopted by governments in the name of Reviewed by William H.
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