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Prometheus Award

Libertarian Futurist Society

An annual award presented by the Libertarian Futurist Society to science fiction and fantasy novels that best explore themes of individual liberty, free markets, and anti-authoritarianism; also includes a Hall of Fame category for classic libertarian SF works.

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2026

  1. A Kiss for Damocles

    J. Kenton Pierce

    Won
  2. No Man's Land

    Sarah Hoyt

    Shortlisted
  3. Powerless

    Harry Turtledove

    Shortlisted
  4. Storm Dragon

    Dave Freer

    Shortlisted
  5. War by Other Means

    Karl K. Gallagher

    Shortlisted

2025

  1. In the Belly of the Whale

    Michael F. Flynn

    Won
  2. Alliance Unbound

    C.J. Cherryh & Jane Fancher

    Shortlisted
  3. Beggar's Sky

    Wil McCarthy

    Shortlisted

  4. Cancelled: The Shape of Things to Come

    Danny King

    Shortlisted
  5. Mania

    Lionel Shriver

    Shortlisted

2024

  1. Critical Mass

    Daniel Suarez

    Won

  2. God's Girlfriend

    "Dr. Insensitive Jerk" Gordon Hanka

    Shortlisted
  3. Lord of a Shattered Land

    Howard Andrew Jones

    Shortlisted

  4. Swim Among the People

    Karl K. Gallagher

    Shortlisted
  5. Theft of Fire: Orbital Space#1

    Devon Eriksen

    Shortlisted

2023

  1. Cloud Castles

    Dave Freer

    Won

  2. A Beast Cannot Feign

    "Dr. Insensitive Jerk" Gordon Hanka

    Shortlisted
  3. Captain Trader Helmsman Spy

    Karl K. Gallagher

    Shortlisted
  4. Summer's End

    John Van Stry

    Shortlisted
  5. Widowland

    C. J. Carey

    Shortlisted

2022

  1. Rich Man's Sky

    Wil McCarthy

    Won
  2. Between Home and Ruin

    Karl K. Gallagher

    Shortlisted
  3. Klara and the Sun

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    Shortlisted
  4. Seize What's Held Dear

    Karl K. Gallagher

    Shortlisted
  5. Should We Stay or Should We Go

    Lionel Shriver

    Shortlisted

2021

  1. The Hook

    Barry B. Longyear

    Won
  2. Braintrust: Requiem

    Marc Stiegler

    Shortlisted
  3. Heaven's River

    Dennis E. Taylor

    Shortlisted
  4. Storm between the Stars

    Karl K. Gallagher

    Shortlisted

  5. Who Can Own the Stars?

    Mackey Chandler

    Shortlisted

2020

  1. Alliance Rising

    C. J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher

    Won
  2. Luna: Moon Rising

    Ian McDonald

    Shortlisted
  3. Ode to Defiance

    Marc Stiegler

    Shortlisted
  4. Ruin's Wake

    Patrick Edwards

    Shortlisted
  5. The Testaments

    Margaret Atwood

    Shortlisted

2019

  1. Causes of Separation

    Travis J I Corcoran

    Won
  2. Kingdom of the Wicked

    Helen Dale

    Shortlisted
  3. State Tectonics

    Malka Older

    Shortlisted

  4. The Fractal Man

    J. Neil Schulman

    Shortlisted
  5. The Murderbot Diaries

    Martha Wells

    Shortlisted

2018

  1. The Powers of the Earth

    Travis J I Corcoran

    Won
  2. Artemis

    Andy Weir

    Shortlisted
  3. Darkship Revenge

    Sarah A. Hoyt

    Shortlisted

  4. Drug Lord: High Ground

    Doug Casey and John Hunt

    Shortlisted
  5. The Corporation Wars: Emergence

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted
  6. Torchship, Torchship Pilot and Torchship Captain

    Karl K. Gallagher

    Shortlisted

2017

  1. The Core of the Sun

    Johanna Sinisalo

    Won
  2. Blade of p'Na

    L. Neil Smith

    Shortlisted
  3. The Corporation Wars: Dissidence

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted
  4. The Corporation Wars: Insurgence

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted
  5. The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

    Lionel Shriver

    Shortlisted

2016

  1. Seveneves

    Neal Stephenson

    Won
  2. A Borrowed Man

    Gene Wolfe

    Shortlisted
  3. Apex

    Ramez Naam

    Shortlisted
  4. Golden Son

    Pierce Brown

    Shortlisted
  5. The Just City

    Jo Walton

    Shortlisted

2015

  1. Influx

    Daniel Suarez

    Won
  2. A Better World

    Marcus Sakey

    Shortlisted
  3. Raising Steam

    Terry Pratchett

    Shortlisted
  4. The Three-Body Problem

    Cixin Liu (Chinese), Ken Liu (translator)

    Shortlisted

2014

  1. Homeland

    Cory Doctorow

    Won
  2. Nexus

    Ramez Naam

    Won
  3. A Few Good Men

    Sarah A. Hoyt

    Shortlisted
  4. Brilliance

    Marcus Sakey

    Shortlisted
  5. Crux

    Ramez Naam

    Shortlisted

2013

  1. Pirate Cinema

    Cory Doctorow

    Won
  2. Arctic Rising

    Tobias S. Buckell

    Shortlisted
  3. Darkship Renegades

    Sarah A. Hoyt

    Shortlisted
  4. Kill Decision

    Daniel Suarez

    Shortlisted
  5. The Unincorporated Future

    Dani and Eytan Kollin

    Shortlisted

2012

  1. Ready Player One

    Ernest Cline

    Won
  2. The Freedom Maze

    Delia Sherman

    Won

  3. In the Shadow of Ares

    Thomas L. James and Carl C. Carlsson

    Shortlisted
  4. Snuff

    Terry Pratchett

    Shortlisted
  5. The Children of the Sky

    Vernor Vinge

    Shortlisted
  6. The Restoration Game

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted

2011

  1. Darkship Thieves

    Sarah A. Hoyt

    Won
  2. Ceres

    L. Neil Smith

    Shortlisted
  3. For the Win

    Cory Doctorow

    Shortlisted
  4. Live Free or Die

    John Ringo

    Shortlisted
  5. The Last Trumpet Project

    Kevin MacArdry

    Shortlisted

2010

  1. The Unincorporated Man

    Dani and Eytan Kollin

    Won
  2. Hidden Empire

    Orson Scott Card

    Shortlisted
  3. Liberating Atlantis

    Harry Turtledove

    Shortlisted
  4. Makers

    Cory Doctorow

    Shortlisted
  5. The United States of Atlantis

    Harry Turtledove

    Shortlisted

2009

  1. Little Brother

    Cory Doctorow

    Won
  2. Half a Crown

    Jo Walton

    Shortlisted
  3. Matter

    Iain M. Banks

    Shortlisted
  4. Opening Atlantis

    Harry Turtledove

    Shortlisted
  5. Saturn's Children

    Charles Stross

    Shortlisted
  6. The January Dancer

    Michael Flynn

    Shortlisted

2008

  1. Ha'penny

    Jo Walton

    Won
  2. The Gladiator

    Harry Turtledove

    Won
  3. Fleet of Worlds

    Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner

    Shortlisted
  4. Ragamuffin

    Tobias S. Buckell

    Shortlisted
  5. The Execution Channel

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted

2007

  1. Glasshouse

    Charles Stross

    Won
  2. Empire

    Orson Scott Card

    Shortlisted
  3. Harbingers

    F. Paul Wilson

    Shortlisted
  4. Rainbows End

    Vernor Vinge

    Shortlisted
  5. The Ghost Brigades

    John Scalzi

    Shortlisted

2006

  1. Learning the World

    Ken MacLeod

    Won
  2. 47

    Walter Mosley

    Shortlisted
  3. Chainfire

    Terry Goodkind

    Shortlisted
  4. RebelFire: Out of the Gray Zone

    Claire Wolfe and Aaron S. Zelman

    Shortlisted
  5. The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Resistance

    Vin Suprynowicz

    Shortlisted
  6. The Hidden Family

    Charles Stross

    Shortlisted

2005

  1. The System of the World

    Neal Stephenson

    Won
  2. Anarquia

    Brad Linaweaver and J. Kent Hastings

    Shortlisted
  3. Marque and Reprisal

    Elizabeth Moon

    Shortlisted
  4. Newton's Wake: A Space Opera

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted
  5. State of Fear

    Michael Crichton

    Shortlisted

2004

  1. Sims

    F. Paul Wilson

    Won
  2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

    J. K. Rowling

    Shortlisted
  3. Naked Empire

    Terry Goodkind

    Shortlisted
  4. Spin State

    Chris Moriarty

    Shortlisted
  5. The Pixel Eye

    Paul Levinson

    Shortlisted

2003

  1. Night Watch

    Terry Pratchett

    Won
  2. Dark Light

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted
  3. Escape from Heaven

    J. Neil Schulman

    Shortlisted
  4. Schild's Ladder

    Greg Egan

    Shortlisted
  5. The Haunted Air

    F. Paul Wilson

    Shortlisted

2002

  1. Psychohistorical Crisis

    Donald Kingsbury

    Won
  2. Enemy Glory

    Karen Michalson

    Shortlisted
  3. Falling Stars

    Michael F. Flynn

    Shortlisted
  4. Hosts

    F. Paul Wilson

    Shortlisted
  5. The American Zone

    L. Neil Smith

    Shortlisted

2001

  1. The Forge of the Elders

    L. Neil Smith

    Won
  2. Eagle Against the Stars

    Steve White

    Shortlisted
  3. Lodestar

    Michael F. Flynn

    Shortlisted
  4. The Sky Road

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted
  5. The Truth

    Terry Pratchett

    Shortlisted

2000

  1. A Deepness in the Sky

    Vernor Vinge

    Won
  2. Cradle of Saturn

    James P. Hogan

    Shortlisted
  3. Cryptonomicon

    Neal Stephenson

    Shortlisted
  4. The Cassini Division

    Ken MacLeod

    Shortlisted
  5. The Martian Race

    Gregory Benford

    Shortlisted

1999

  1. The Golden Globe

    John Varley

    Won
  2. Masque

    F. Paul Wilson and Matthew Costello

    Shortlisted
  3. Moonwar

    Ben Bova

    Shortlisted
  4. Rogue Star

    Michael F. Flynn

    Shortlisted
  5. Y2K: The Millennium Bug

    Don L. Tiggre

    Shortlisted

1998

  1. The Stone Canal

    Ken MacLeod

    Won
  2. Bretta Martyn

    L. Neil Smith

    Shortlisted
  3. Finity's End

    C. J. Cherryh

    Shortlisted
  4. Nanotime

    Bart Kosko

    Shortlisted
  5. The Fleet of Stars

    Poul Anderson

    Shortlisted

1997

  1. Kings of the High Frontier

    Victor Koman

    Won
  2. Firestar

    Michael F. Flynn

    Shortlisted
  3. Paths to Otherwhere

    James P. Hogan

    Shortlisted
  4. Sliders: the Novel

    Brad Linaweaver

    Shortlisted
  5. Wildside

    Steven Gould

    Shortlisted

1996

  1. The Star Fraction

    Ken MacLeod

    Won

  2. CLD: Collective Landing Detachment

    Victor Milán

    Shortlisted
  3. Design for Great-Day

    Eric Frank Russell and Alan Dean Foster

    Shortlisted
  4. Four Ways to Forgiveness

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Shortlisted
  5. The Diamond Age

    Neal Stephenson

    Shortlisted

1995

  1. The Stars Are Also Fire

    Poul Anderson

    Won
  2. Dark Rivers of the Heart

    Dean Koontz

    Shortlisted

  3. Deadly Care (novel)

    Richard Fulmer

    Shortlisted

  4. Solis

    A. A. Attanasio

    Shortlisted
  5. The Select

    F. Paul Wilson

    Shortlisted

1994

  1. Pallas

    L. Neil Smith

    Won
  2. Beggars in Spain

    Nancy Kress

    Shortlisted
  3. Rainbow Man

    M. J. Engh

    Shortlisted
  4. The Silicon Man

    Charles Platt

    Shortlisted
  5. Virtual Girl

    Amy Thomson

    Shortlisted

1993

  1. The Multiplex Man

    James P. Hogan

    Won
  2. A Woman's Place

    Rex Denver Borough

    Shortlisted
  3. Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson

    Shortlisted
  4. Steel Beach

    John Varley

    Shortlisted
  5. The Memory of Earth

    Orson Scott Card

    Shortlisted
  6. Timemaster

    Robert L. Forward

    Shortlisted

1992

  1. Fallen Angels

    Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael F. Flynn

    Won

  2. A Tale of the Wind

    Kay Nolte Smith

    Shortlisted
  3. D'Shai

    Joel Rosenberg

    Shortlisted

  4. Distant Drums

    Diane Carey

    Shortlisted
  5. ME: A Novel of Self-Discovery

    Thomas T. Thomas

    Shortlisted
  6. Star Trek#57: The Rift

    Peter David

    Shortlisted
  7. The Infinity Gambit

    James P. Hogan

    Shortlisted
  8. The Silicon Man

    Charles Platt

    Shortlisted

1991

  1. In the Country of the Blind

    Michael F. Flynn

    Won
  2. The Cybernetic Shogun

    Victor Milán

    Shortlisted
  3. The Tery

    F. Paul Wilson

    Shortlisted
  4. Under the Yoke

    S. M. Stirling

    Shortlisted
  5. V for Vendetta

    Alan Moore and David Lloyd

    Shortlisted

1990

  1. Solomon's Knife

    Victor Koman

    Won

  2. Henry Martyn

    L. Neil Smith

    Shortlisted
  3. Infinity Hold

    Barry B. Longyear

    Shortlisted
  4. The Boat of a Million Years

    Poul Anderson

    Shortlisted
  5. The Mirror Maze

    James P. Hogan

    Shortlisted

1989

  1. Moon of Ice

    Brad Linaweaver

    Won
  2. David's Sling

    Marc Stiegler

    Shortlisted
  3. Falling Free

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Shortlisted
  4. Final Circuit

    Melinda M. Snodgrass

    Shortlisted
  5. To Sail Beyond the Sunset

    Robert A. Heinlein

    Shortlisted

1988

  1. The Jehovah Contract

    Victor Koman

    Won

  2. Circuit Breaker

    Melinda M. Snodgrass

    Shortlisted
  3. First Citizen

    Thomas T. Thomas

    Shortlisted
  4. The Uplift War

    David Brin

    Shortlisted
  5. Way of the Pilgrim

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Shortlisted

1987

  1. Marooned in Realtime

    Vernor Vinge

    Won
  2. A Door into Ocean

    Joan Slonczewski

    Shortlisted
  3. Circuit

    Melinda M. Snodgrass

    Shortlisted
  4. The Crystal Empire

    L. Neil Smith

    Shortlisted
  5. The Handmaid's Tale

    Margaret Atwood

    Shortlisted

1986

  1. The Cybernetic Samurai

    Victor Milán

    Won
  2. A Matter of Time

    Glen Cook

    Shortlisted
  3. Elegy for a Soprano

    Kay Nolte Smith

    Shortlisted
  4. Radio Free Albemuth

    Philip K. Dick

    Shortlisted
  5. The Gallatin Divergence

    L. Neil Smith

    Shortlisted

1985

  1. Manna

    G. Harry Stine

    Shortlisted
  2. The Final Encyclopedia

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Shortlisted
  3. The Peace War

    Vernor Vinge

    Shortlisted
  4. The Tomb

    F. Paul Wilson

    Shortlisted
  5. Tom Paine Maru

    L. Neil Smith

    Shortlisted

1984

  1. The Rainbow Cadenza

    J. Neil Schulman

    Won

  2. Double Crossing

    Erika Holzer

    Shortlisted
  3. Orion Shall Rise

    Poul Anderson

    Shortlisted
  4. The Nagasaki Vector

    L. Neil Smith

    Shortlisted
  5. Thendara House

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Shortlisted

1983

  1. Voyage from Yesteryear

    James P. Hogan

    Won
  2. Fire Dancer

    Ann Maxwell

    Shortlisted
  3. Friday

    Robert A. Heinlein

    Shortlisted
  4. Oath of Fealty

    Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

    Shortlisted
  5. The Many-Colored Land

    Julian May

    Shortlisted

1982

  1. The Probability Broach

    L. Neil Smith

    Won
  2. Alongside Night

    J. Neil Schulman

    Shortlisted
  3. An Enemy of the State

    F. Paul Wilson

    Shortlisted
  4. Songs from the Stars

    Norman Spinrad

    Shortlisted
  5. Tales of Nevèrÿon

    Samuel R. Delany

    Shortlisted

  6. The Watcher

    Kay Nolte Smith

    Shortlisted

1979

  1. Wheels Within Wheels

    F. Paul Wilson

    Won
  2. The Avatar

    Poul Anderson

    Shortlisted
  3. The Genesis Machine

    James P. Hogan

    Shortlisted