2026 Prometheus Awards Winners

The Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS) has announced A Kiss for Damocles by J. Kenton Pierce (Raconteur) [amazon / bookshop] as the winner of the Prometheus Award in the Best Novel category, honoring pro-freedom works published in 2025. Other nominees were:

Storm-Dragon, Dave Freer (Raconteur) amazon / bookshop

War By Other Means, Karl K. Gallagher (Kelt Haven) amazon

No Man’s Land Volumes 1-3, Sarah A. Hoyt (Goldport) amazon / bookshop

Powerless, Harry Turtledove (Caezik SF & Fantasy) amazon / bookshop

Storm-Dragon by Dave Freer (Raconteur) won the first Special Prometheus Award Winner for Young Adult Fiction.

Brave New World, a 1932 title by Aldous Huxley (Chatto & Windus), is the winner of the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award for Best Classic Fiction. Other finalists were:

The Star Dwellers, James Blish (Faber & Faber; Avon)

That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis (Scribner)

Salt, Adam Roberts (Gollancz)

Singularity Sky, Charles Stross (Ace)

Nominees for Hall of Fame may be in any narrative or dramatic form, including prose fiction, stage plays, film, television, other video, graphic novels, song lyrics, or epic or narrative verse; they must explore themes relevant to libertarianism and must be science fiction, fantasy, or related genres. All members of the Libertarian Futurist Society were eligible to vote.

“The 46th annual Prometheus Awards will be presented online Sunday afternoon Aug. 16, 2026, in a zoom awards ceremony open to the public. This year’s hourlong ceremony, tentatively scheduled for 2-3 p.m. Eastern time and emceed by LFS President William H. Stoddard, will feature a guest speaker: Lifelong science-fiction fan Ilya Somin (George Mason University law professor, Cato Institute scholar and author), who will present the Hall of Fame award.”

For more information, see the official press release.

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