Science Fiction Awards Watch

An email from the Libertarian Futurist Society announces the finalists for their 2010 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. The chosen works are:

  • “As Easy as A.B.C.,” a story by Rudyard Kipling (1912)
  • Cryptonomicon, a novel by Neal Stephenson (1999)
  • “No Truce with Kings,” a story by Poul Anderson (1964)
  • “’Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman,” a story by Harlan Ellison (1965)

Final voting by members of the Society will take place in June and early July of 2010. The award will be presented in a ceremony at the World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne.