The Prometheus Awards

The Prometheus Award for Best Novel was created to honor new libertarian fiction, and the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award honors classic libertarian fiction. The Prometheus Awards are hosted by the Libertarian Futurist Society.

This is a list of all of the books that were nominated for these two awards. There are more than 500 books on this list by almost 300 authors, which is enough liberty themed fiction to keep anyone entertained and inspired for a long time.

Finalists are indicated with a single asterisk, *, and winners are indicated with a double asterisk, **.





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Edward Abbey

The Fool's Progress 1989

The Monkey Wrench Gang

Brian Aldiss

Enemies of the System

Roger MacBride Allen

Farside Cannon 1989

Hans Christian Anderson

The Emperor's New Clothes *

Poul Anderson

The Avatar

Beyond the Beyond

The Boat of a Million Years 1990 *

Ensign Flandry 1966

Flandry of Terra

The Fleet of Stars 1998 *

The Long Way Home

The Man Who Counts

Mirkheim

New America 1984

No Truce with Kings 1964

Operation Luna 2000

Orion Shall Rise 1984 *

The People of the Wind

"Sam Hall" short story 1953 *

Satan's World

The Star Fox *

The Stars Are Also Fire 1995 **

Trader to the Stars *

Winter of the World

World Without Stars

Piers Anthony

Bio of a Space Tyrant, Vol IV 1986

On a Pale Horse 1984

Refugee 1984

Vicious Circle 1983

Isaac Asimov

The End of Eternity 1955

A. A. Attanasio

Solis 1995

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale 1987 *

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Iain Banks

Hydrogen Sonata 2013

Matter *

John Barnes

Candle 2001

Directive 51 2011

Gregory Benford

Across the Sea of Suns 1985

Against Infinity 1984

The Martian Race 2000 *

Gary Bennett

The Star Sailors 1982

Martin Berman-Gorvine 2014

Seven Against Mars

Alfred Bester

The Stars my Destination *

Bruce Boston

The Guardener's Tale 2008

Ben Bova

Moonwar 1999 *

Voyagers 1983

Voyagers II: The Alien Within 1986

Karin Boye

Kallocain 1940

Steven Boyett

Ariel 1984

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 *

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Thendra House 1984 *

David Brin

The Uplift War 1988 *

Pierce Brown

Golden Son 2016 *

Tobias Buckell

Arctic Rising 2013 *

Ragamuffin 2008 *

Algis Budrys

The Falling Torch

Lois McMaster Bujold

Borders of Infinity 1990

Falling Free 1989 *

Anthony Burgess

1985

Clockwork Orange 1963 *

William Burroughs

Cities of the Night

Carl Bussjaeger

Net Assets 2003

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David Calderwood

Revolutionary Language 1999

Orson Scott Card

Empire 2007 *

Heartfire 1999

Hidden Empire 2010 *

Orson Scott Card and Kathryn Kramer

Lovelock 1995

D. L. Carey

Distant Drums 1992 *

Forrest Carter

The Outlaw Josey Wales

C. J. Cherryh

Finity's End 1998 *

The Kif Strike Back 1986

Pride of Chanur 1983

Liu Cixin

The Three-Body Problem 2015 *

Tom Clancy

The Hunt for Red October

Curt Clark

Anarchaos

James Clavel

Noble House

Tai Pan

John Cleve (aka Victor Koman)

Jonuta Rising 1984

Mark L. Clifton

Eight Keys to Eden

When They Come from Space

Ernest Cline

Ready Player One 2012 **

Glen Cook

A Matter of Time 1986 *

Edmund Cooper

The Cloud Walkers

Lee Correy

Manna 1984 *

Star Driver 1982

Carlos Cortes

The Prisoner 2010

Dustin Costa

Squirrel Days 2016

Michael Crichton

State of Fear 2005 *

A. C. Crispin

V 1985

John Crowley

Beasts

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Brian Daley

Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds

Fall of the White Ship Avatar

Jinx on a Terran Inheritance

Han Solo at Star's End

Gyorgy Dalos

1985

Peter David

The Rift; Star Trek #59 1992 *

Chet Day

Hacker 1990

Samuel R. Delany

Neveryona 1984

Stars in my Pockets Like Grains of Sand 1985

Tales of Neveryon 1982 *

Philip K. Dick

The Divine Invasion 1983

Galactic Pot Healer 1969

The Man in the High Castle 1961

Radio Free Albemuth 1986 *

Terrence Dicks

Dr. Who and the Sunmakers

Gordon Dickson

Final Encyclopedia 1985 *

The Way of the Pilgrim 1988 *

Thomas Disch

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Camp Concentration

On the Wings of Song 1982

The Prisoner

Cory Doctorow

For the Win 2011 *

Homeland 2014 *

Little Brother 2009 **

Makers 2010 *

Pirate Cinema 2013 **

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G.C. Edmondson

The Man Who Corrupted Earth

The Ship that Sailed the Time Stream

Greg Egan

Schild's Ladder 2003 *

Zendegi 2011

Richard Elliot

The Sword of Allah 1985

Harlan Ellison

"Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman" short story 1965 *

Mikhail Emstev and Eremai Parnov

World Soul

M. J. Engh

Arslan

The Rainbow Man 1994 *

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Oscar L. Fellows

Operation Damocles 1999

Firesign Theater

"I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus"

Eric Flint and David Drake

The Tyrant 2003

Michael Flynn

Falling Stars 2002 *

Firestar 1997 *

In the Country of the Blind 1991 **

In the Lion's Mouth 2013

The January Dancer 2009 *

Lodestar 2001 *

Rogue Star 1999 *

William Forstchen

Prometheus 2000

E. M. Forster

The Machine Stops 1909

Alan Dean Foster

The Man Who Used the Universe 1984

M. A. Foster

The Morphodite 1983

Andrew Fox

The Good Humor Man 2010

Robert Wilfred Franson

The Shadow of the Ship 1984

David D. Friedman

Harald 2007

Isamu Fukui

Truancy 2009

Richard Fulmer

Deadly Care 1995

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Sean Gabb

The Break 2015

John Gardner

Grendel

David Gerrold

A Matter for Men 1984

William Gibson

Mona Lisa Overdrive 1989

Lisa Goldstein

Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon 1994

Sergeanne Golon

The Countess Angeline

Terry Goodkind

Chainfire 2006 *

Naked Empire 2004 *

Stephen Gould

Reflex 2006

Wildside 1997 *

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Joe Haldeman

Buying Time 1990

The Forever War

L.P. Hartley

Facial Justice

Elayn Harvey

Warhaven 1988

Russell Hasan

Rob Seablue and the Eye of Tantalus 2013

Cameron Hawley

Cash McCall

Henry Hazlitt

Time Will Run Back 1966

Robert Heinlein

Citizen of the Galaxy

Farnham's Freehold

For Us the Living 2005

Friday 1983 *

Grumbles from the Grave 1990

Methuselah's Children *

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress *

The Puppet Masters

Red Planet *

Revolt in 2100

The Rolling Stones

To Sail Beyond the Sunset 1989 *

Stranger in a Strange Land *

Time Enough for Love *

Robert Heinlein and Spider Robinson

Variable Star 2007

Brian Herbert

The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma 2015

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

Dune: House Corrino 2002

Frank Herbert

Chapterhouse Dune 1986

Heretics of Dune 1985

William Hertling

AI Apocalypse 2013

The Turing Exception 2016

Ruth Beebe Hill

Hanta Yo

Russell Hoban

Riddley Walker

James P. Hogan

The Anguished Dawn 2004

Code of the Lifemaker 1984

Cradle of Saturn 2000 *

Echoes of an Alien Sky 2008

The Genesis Machine

The Infnity Gambit 1991 *

The Legend That Was Earth 2001

Martian Knightlife 2002

Migration 2011

Mirror Maze 1990 *

The Multiple Man 1993 **

Paths to Otherwhere 1997 *

The Proteus Operation 1986

Voyage From Yesteryear 1983 **

Cecilia Holland

Floating Worlds

Bruce T. Holmes

Anvil of the Heart 1985

Erica Holzer

Double Crossing 1984 *

Stephanie T. Hoppe

Windrider 1986

Sarah Hoyt

A Few Good Men 2014 *

Darkship Renegades 2013 *

Darkship Thieves 2011 **

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

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Marie Jakober

The Mind Gods

P. D. James

The Children of Men 1994

Thomas L. James and Carol C. Carlsson

In the Shadow of Ares 2012 *

K. W. Jeter

Glass Hammer 1986

Ken Kesey

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Stephen King

Firestarter 1982

Donald Kingsbury

Courtship Rite 1982 **

Psychohistorical Crisis 2002 **

Rudyard Kipling

"As Easy as A.B.C." short story 1912 *

Fletcher Knebel and Charles Bailey II

Seven Days in May

Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon

Dani and Eytan Kollin

The Unincorporated Future 2013 *

The Unincorporated Man **

The Unincorporated War 2011

The Unincorporated Woman 2012

Victor Koman

The Jehovah Contract 1988 **

Kings of the High Frontier 1997 **

Solomon's Knife 1990 **

Dean Koontz

Dark Rivers of the Heart 1995 *

Cyril Kornbluth

Not This August

The Syndic *

Bart Kosko

Nanotime 1998 *

Eric Kotani and John Maddox Roberts

The Island Worlds 1987 *

Tom Kratman

State of Disobedience 2004

Nancy Kress

An Alien Light 1988

Beggars and Choosers 1995

Beggars in Spain 1994 *

Crossfire 2004

Trinity 1986

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R.A. Lafferty

The Reefs of Earth

Gen LaGreca

Noble Vision 2006

Oliver Lang

Defiance

Tracy Lawson

Counteract 2015

Gentry Lee

The Tranquility Wars 2002

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed *

Four Ways to Forgiveness 1996 *

Malafrena 1982

The Word for World is Forest

Fritz Leiber

Gather, Darkness

Murray Leinster

"Exploration Team"

Edward M. Lerner

InterstellerNet: Enigma 2016

Ira Levin

This Perfect Day *

Paul Levinson

The Pixel Eye 2004 *

C. S. Lewis

Out of the Silent Planet

That Hideous Strength 1945

Sinclair Lewis

It Can't Happen Here 1936 **

Jacqueline Lichtenberh and Jean Lorrah

First Channel 1983

Brad Linaweaver

Moon of Ice 1989 **

Brad Linaweaver and Kent J. Hastings

Anarquia 2005 *

Sliders 1997 *

Ric Locke

Temporary Duty 2012

Jack London

The Iron Heel

Barry Longyear

Circus World 1982

Elephant Song

Infinity Hold 1990 *

The Tomorrow Testament 1984

George Lucas

THX 1138

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Kevin MacArdry

The Last Trumpet Project (www.lasttrumpetproject.com) 2011 *

Ken MacLeod

The Cassini Division 2000 *

Cosmonaut Keep 2002

Dark Light 2003 *

The Execution 2008 *

Learning the World 2006 **

Newton's Wake 2005 *

The Restoration Game 2012 *

The Sky Road 2001 *

The Star Fraction 1996 **

The Stone Canal 1998 **

Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath

Triangle 1984

George R.R. Martin

Armageddon Rag

Robert Mason

Weapon 1990

Ann Maxwell

Fire Dancer 1983 *

Julian May

The Adversary 1985

The Golden Torc 1983

Intervention 1988

The Many-Colored Land 1983 *

The Nonborn King 1984

Ardath Mayhar

Khi to Freedom 1984

Zak Maymin

Publicani 2009

Paul McAuley

Cowboy Angels 2012

Anne McCaffrey

Freedom's Challenge 1999

Freedom's Choice 1998

Freedom's Ransom 2003

T. C. McCarthy

Chimera 2013

Ian McDonald

Luna: New Moon 2016

Thomas McDonough

Architects of Hyperspace 1988

Richard Menroe

The Shattered Stars 1985

Robert A. Metzger

Picoverse 2003

Richard Mgrdechian

3000 Years 2006

Karen Michalson

Enemy Glory 2002 *

Hecate's Glory 2004

Victor Milán

CLD 1996 *

Cybernetic Samurai 1986 **

Cybernetic Shogun 1991 *

Elizabeth Moon

Engaging the Enemy 2007

Marque and Reprisal 2005 *

Michael Moorcock

The Steel Tsar

The Warhound and the World's Pain 1983

Alan Moore

V for Vendetta 1991 *

Chris Moriarty

Spin State 2004 *

Grant Morrison

The Invisibles, a series of graphic novels 1994-2000

Toni Morrison

Beloved 1988

Walter Mosley

47 2006 *

Robert Moss

Moscow Rules 1986

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Ramez Naam

Apex 2016 *

Crux 2014 *

Nexus 2014 *

Rolf Nelson

The Stars Came Back 2015

O. T. Nelson

The Girl Who Owned a City 1977

Larry Niven, Michael Flynn, and Jerry Pournelle

Fallen Angels 1992 **

Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner

Fleet of Worlds 2008 *

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Oath of Fealty 1983 *

Kevin O'Donnell

War of Omission 1983

Rebecca Ore

Outlaw School 2001

George Orwell

Animal Farm

1984 *

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Anthony Pacheco

Armageddon's Princess 2014

Edgar Pangborn

Davy

A Mirror for Observers 1954 *

Mervyn Peake

Titus Alone

Titus Groan

Gormenghast

Marge Piercy

Women on the Edge of Time

H. Beam Piper

First Cycle 1983

Fuzzy and Other People 1985

Little Fuzzy *

The Other Human Race

H. Beam Piper and John McGuire

Lone Star Planet/ A Planet for Texans *

Charles Platt

Free Zone 1990

The Silicon Man 1994 *

Jerry Pournelle

Birth of Fire

Exiles to Glory

High Justice

Terry Pratchett

Night Watch 2003 **

Raising Steam 2015 *

Snuff 2012 *

The Truth 2001 *

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

The Long War 2014

Byron Preiss and Michael Reaves

Dragonworld 1982

Mario Puzo

The Sicilian 1985

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Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged *

Anthem *

The Fountainhead

We the Living

Melanie Rawn

Exiles: The Mageborn Traitor 1998

Mack Reynolds

The Lagrangists 1984

Leonard Richardson

Constellation Game 2013

John Ringo

The Hot Gate: Troy Rising III 2012

Live Free or Die 2011 *

Tom Robbins

Still Life with Woodpecker 1982

Adam Roberts

Gradisil 2008

Kenneth Roberts

Arundel

Kim Stanley Robinson

Icehenge 1985

Spider Robinson

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

The Free Lunch 2002

Larken Rose

The Iron Web 2010

Joel Rosenberg

D'Shai 1992 *

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Emile

La Nouvelle Eloise

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2004 *

Shelly Rueben

Julian Solo 1989

Rush

2112

Eric Frank Russell

The Great Explosion *

The Space Willies

Wasp

Erik Frank Russell and Alan Dean Foster

Design for Great-Day 1996 *

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Rafael Sabatini

Scaramouche

Marcus Sakey

A Better World 2015 *

Brilliance 2014 *

John Scalzi

The Ghost Brigades 2007 *

Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

Illuminatus *

J. Neil Schulman

Alongside Night 1982 *

Escape from Heaven 2003 *

The Rainbow Cadenza 1984 **

Robert Sheckley

The Status Civilization

Delia Sherman

The Freedom Maze 2012 **

Will Shetterly

Chimera 2001

John Shirley

A Splendid Chaos 1989

Susan Shwartz

Hostile Takeover 2005

William Silent

Lord of the Red Sun

Robert Silverberg

A Time of Changes 1971

Thomas Sipos

Vampire Nation 2001

Brian Francis Slattery

Liberation 2009

Joan Slonczewski

A Door into Ocean 1987 *

Still Forms on Foxfield 1982

Edward E. Smith

Subspace Explorers 1965

Kay Nolte Smith

A Tale of the Wind 1992 *

Elegy for a Soprano 1986 *

Catching Fire 1983

Mindspell 1984

The Watcher 1982 *

L. Neil Smith

The American Zone 2002 *

The Crystal Empire 1987 *

Brightsuit MacBear 1989

Bretta Martyn 1998 *

Ceres 2011 *

Forge of the Elders 2001 **

Galltin Divergence 1986 *

Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of Thonboka 1984

Henry Martyn 1990 *

Nagasaki Vector 1984 *

Pallas 1994 **

Sweeter Than Wine 2012

Their Majesties' Bucketeers 1983

Tom Paine Maru 1985 *

The Probability Broach 1982 **

The Venus Belt 1983

The Wardove

L. Neil Smith, Rex F. May, Scott Bieser, and Jennifer Zach

Roswell, Texas, a graphic novel 2009

Melinda Snodgrass

Circuit 1987 *

Circuit Breaker 1988 *

Final Circuit 1989 *

Norman Spinrad

Agent of Chaos

Song From the Stars 1982 *

A World Between 1982

Henrik Stangerup

The Man Who Wanted to be Guilty

Katy Stauber

Revolution World 2012

Allen Steele

Coyote 2003

Coyote Rising 2005

John Steinbeck

East of Eden

Bob Stickgold

The California Coven Project 1983

Marc Stiegler

David's Sling 1989 *

Richard Steinberg

Nobody's Safe 2000

Neal Stephenson

Anathem

The Confusion 2005

Cryptonomicon 2000 *

The Diamond Age 1996 *

Quicksilver 2004

REAMDE 2012

Seveneves 2016 **

The System of the World 2005 **

G.R. Stewert

Earth Abides

Marc Stiegler

Earthweb 2000

S. M. Stirling

Marching Through Georgia

The Stone Dogs

Under the Yoke 1991 *

Shannon Stoker

The Collection: A Registry Novel 2015

Charles Stross

Accelerando 2006

Annihilation Score 2016

The Clan Corporate 2007

Glasshouse 2007 **

The Hidden Family 2006 *

Iron Sunrise 2005

The Revolution Business: Book Five of the Merchant Princes 2010

Saturn's Children 2009 *

Singularity Sky 2003

Daniel Suarez

Influx 2015 **

Kill Decision 2013 *

Vin Suprynowicz

The Black Arrow 2006 *

The Miskatonic Manuscript 2016

The Testament of James 2016

S. Andrew Swann

Prophets: Apotheosis 2010

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Douglas Terman

Free Flight 1982

Thomas Thomas

First Citizen 1988 *

ME 1992 *

Amy Thomson

Virtual Girl 1994 *

Don L. Tiggre

Y2K: The Millennium Bug 1999 *

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings 1955 **

Harry Turtledove

Between the Rivers 1999

The Gladiator 2008 **

Joe Steele 2016

Liberating Atlantis 2010 *

Opening Atlantis 2009 *

Ruled Brittania 2004

The United States of Atlantis 2010 *

Jack Vance

The Anome

Blue World

The Brave Free Men

Emphyrio

The Faceless Man

Wyst: Alastor 1716

John Varley

The Golden Globe 1999 **

Millenium 1984

Red Lightning 2007

Red Thunder 2004

Gore Vidal

Burr

Vernon Vinge

The Children of the Sky 2012 *

A Deepness in the Sky 2000 **

Marooned in Realtime 1987 **

Rainbows End 2007 *

The Peace War 1985 *

True Names, a novella 1981 **

A. E. Van Vogt

Slan

Voyage of the Space Beagle

The Weapon Shops of Isher *

Kurt Vonnegut

Jailbird 1982

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Katie Waitman

The Merro Tree 1998

Jo Walton

Half a Crown 2009 *

Ha'penny 2008 **

The Just City 2016

M.D. Waters

Archetype 2015

David Weber

By Schism Rent Asunder 2009 *

Midst Toil and Tribulation 2013

A Mighty Fortress 2011

Off Armageddon Reef 2008

Shadow of Freedom 2014

H.G. Wells

In the Days of the Comet

Michael L. Wentz

Resurrection of Liberty 2006

Steve White

Eagle Against the Stars 2001 *

T. H. White

The Book of Merlyn 1977

The Once and Future King 1977

Kate Wilhelm

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Walter Jon Williams

City on Fire 1998

Hardwired

Voice of the Whirlwind 1989

Michael Z. Williamson

Freehold 2005

The Humanoids

The Silicon Dagger 2000

The Weapon (Freehold War) 2006

Connie Willis

Even the Queen 1993

F. Paul Wilson

All the Rage 2001

An Enemy of the State 1982 *

Crisscross 2005

Conspiracies 2001

Deep as the Marrow 1998

Gateways 2004

Ground Zero 2010

Harbingers 2007 *

The Haunted Air 2003 *

Healer *

Hosts 2002 *

Implant 1996

Infernal 2006

Legacies 1999

Nightworld 1994

The Select 1995

Sims 2004 **

The Tery 1992 *

The Tomb 1985 *

Wheels Within Wheels 1979 **

F. Paul Wilson and Matthew Costello

Masque 1999 *

Robert Anton Wilson

Masks of the Illuminati 1983

Schrodinger's Cat

Right Where You Are Sitting Now 1985

The Universe Next Door 1979

Claire Wolfe and Aaron Zelman

RebelFire: Out of the Gray Zone 2006 *

Gene Wolfe

A Borrowed Man 2016 *

Free Live Free 1986

Operation ARES 1978

John C. Wright

The Golden Age 2002

Last Guardian of Everness 2005

Mists of Everness 2006

Tappan Wright

Islandia

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Nicholas Yermakov

Epiphany 1983

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality 2016

Timothy Zahn

Spinneret 1986

Yevgeni Zamiatin

We *

Roger Zelazny

My Name is Legion

Today We Choose Faces 1973

Robert Zubrin

The Holy Land 2004

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