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Jan 5, 2009

2009 LFS Hall of Fame Finalists




The Libertarian Futurist Society's Hall of Fame committee moved their schedule ahead this year in order to give the members of the LFS more time to read the nominees. The committee started reading and discussing classic works in August, and have agreed on the list of finalists below. All LFS members will be allowed to vote on this slate in July. The Best Novel winner will be chosen by Full members (also in July) from a slate which will be selected in the spring. The following is the list of finalists for the 2009 Prometheus Hall of Fame award:

Falling Free, a novel by Lois McMaster Bujold (1988);

Courtship Rite, a novel by Donald M. Kingsbury (1982);

"As Easy as A.B.C.," a short story by Rudyard Kipling (1912);

The Lord of the Rings, a three-volume novel by J. R. R. Tolkien (1955);

The Once and Future King, including The Book of Merlyn, a novel by T. H. White (1977); and

The Golden Age, a novel by John C. Wright (2002).

Read more about the LFS here.


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Jeff Riggenbach - 1/5/2009

LOTR is in no sense futurist. The LFS, like almost everyone else, sloppily lumps fantasy in with science fiction, as though they were the same thing. For why they aren't, see Robert A. Heinlein, "Science Fiction: Its Nature, Faults and Virtues" in The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism, ed. Basil Davenport (Chicago: Advent, 1959). A brief discussion of Heinlein's argument may be found at

http://books.google.com/books?id=5_NDTA9x-qMC&;pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=riggenbach+%22atlas+shrugged+as+a+science+fiction%22&source=bl&ots=sso5tFjFXe&sig=fE9it8vbEhVLF6sIAchbAry9izY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA127,M1

See especially p. 127.

JR


Aeon J. Skoble - 1/5/2009

I love and am a huge fan of LOTR, but in what sense is that "futurist"?