The Prometheus Award, sponsored by the Libertarian Futurist Society
(LFS), was established in 1979, making it one of the most enduring
awards after the Nebula and Hugo awards, and one of the oldest fan-based
awards currently in sf. Presented annually since 1982 at the World
Science Fiction Convention, the Prometheus Awards include a gold coin
and plaque for the winners.For more than three decades, the Prometheus
Awards have recognized outstanding works of science fiction and fantasy
that stress the importance of liberty as the foundation for
civilization, peace, prosperity, progress and justice.This year's winners for Best Novel are Homeland by Cory Doctorow and Nexus by Ramez Naam.
Homeland by Cory Doctorow
"In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young
Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government
in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that
led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically
clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state. A few years later, California's economy collapses, but
Marcus’s hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading
politician who promises reform. ... Fast-moving, passionate, and as current as next week, Homeland is every bit the equal of Little Brother—a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place." publisherNexus by Ramez Naam
" In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans
together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are
some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to
exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus,
he's thrust over his head into a world of danger and international
espionage - for there is far more at stake than anyone realizes. From
the halls of academe to the halls of power, from the headquarters of an
elite US agency in Washington DC to a secret lab beneath a top
university in Shanghai, from the underground parties of San Francisco to
the illegal biotech markets of Bangkok, from an international
neuroscience conference to a remote monastery in the mountains of
Thailand - Nexus is a thrill ride through a future on the brink of explosion." publisher
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