Tuesday, December 31, 1996

1996 Prometheus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: In 1996, the Libertarian Futurist Society went back to its roots and inducted Robert A. Heinlein's juvenile novel Red Planet into its Hall of Fame. This is one of the fortuitous circumstances in which the book inducted was both an decent example of the libertarian ideology and also a very good book. Red Planet also just happens to be one of my favorite of Heinlein's juvenile novels, so for me, that's an additional bonus.

Best Novel

Winner:
The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod

Other Nominees:
CLD (Collective Landing Detachment) by Victor Milán
Design for Great-Day by Alan Dean Foster and Eric Frank Russell
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Hall of Fame

Winner:
Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein

Other Nominees:
None

Go to previous year's nominees: 1995
Go to subsequent year's nominees: 1997

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