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2013 Prometheus Award finalists

April 8, 2013 /

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)

Papola v. Livingston debate continues

April 5, 2013 /

Over at NPR the economics debate between libertarian John Papola and Keynesian James Livingston continues, with a rebuttal from Papola. For a recap, watch the classic rap video econ-off between Hayek and Keynes that Papola created a few years ago, “Fear the Boom and Bust.”

Iain Banks diagnosed with terminal cancer

April 3, 2013 /

This morning I read on Ken MacLeod’s Twitter that writer Iain Banks has terminal cancer and may only have a few months left to live. Unlike early Banks fans, I stumbled upon his books after first reading MacLeod’s fiction, not the other way around. In the late 1990s I picked up Feersum Endjinn and was simply blown away. His style is impeccable, his imagination visionary. Look to Windward, The Use of Weapons, Matter, Inversions, many more brilliant books. I’ve read only one of his non-sf books under Iain Banks, as they are next to impossible to find in the US. I expected he would continue to write for years to come, and the news he may be working on his last novel is distressing and depressing. Once again there is no fairness in the world.

Magazines in the internet age

March 29, 2013 /

Contrast this io9 article with news that Flipboard just created 50 million magazine editors. Which is more exciting? Is it io9 with it nostalgia for a “world where what you read online comes to you in silos. Instead of a feed reader, you can get an app that organizes your app subscriptions on a nice digital bookshelf where they look just like a bunch of paper magazines in a bookstore” or the one about Flipboard allowing you to curate your own magazine, where “where each user tacks pieces of content into collections that other users can follow. Flipboard users with good taste and and lots of friends could suddenly become influential drivers of attention to news articles”? I’d go for the latter.

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