The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the finalists for the 2013 Prometheus Award, first awarded in 1979 and annually since 1982.

The finalists in the Best Novel category of this year’s Prometheus Award, for the best pro-freedom novel of 2013 are (in alphabetical order by author):
  • Arctic Rising, by Tobias Buckell (TOR Books)
  • The Unincorporated Future, by Dani and Eytan Kollin (TOR Books)
  • Pirate Cinema, by Cory Doctorow (TOR Books)
  • Darkship Renegades, by Sarah Hoyt (Baen Books)
  • Kill Decision, by Daniel Suarez (Dutton – Penguin)
The finalists for the Prometheus Hall of Fame award for Best Classic Fiction are:
  • “Sam Hall”, by Poul Anderson (a short story, published 1953 in Astounding)
  • Falling Free, by Lois McMaster Bujold (a novel, published 1988)
  • “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman”, by Harlan Ellison (a short story, published 1965 in Galaxy)
  • Courtship Rite, by Donald M. Kingsbury (a novel, published 1982)
  • “As Easy as A.B.C.”, by Rudyard Kipling (a short story, published in London Magazine in 1912)
  • Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson (a novel, published 1999)