Frantically Reading

I am hopelessly behind in my huge volume of correspondence.  Can’t keep up with writing emails to friends and family. This is because I am trying to read as many of this year’s Prometheus Award nominees as possible before the voting deadline of July 4. 

As a voting member of the Libertarian Futurist Society (LFS), I now realize that next year I will have to start reading the nominated novels immediately after they are announced at the first of the year.  Some of them are very long works, and some are sequels to previous novels that I haven’t yet read. 

The Prometheus Award goes to the best Science Fiction novel with libertarian themes published in the last year.  The Prometheus Hall of Fame Award goes to older works including short stories.  (Because I find the Hall of Fame nominated works hard to acquire, I rarely vote on this category.) 

Of the novels I’ve read so far, my first choice vote will go to Powers of the Earth (2017) by Travis Corcoran, first of a series.  Powerful stuff.  Also good reads getting my secondary ratings are Darkship Revenge (2017) by Sarah Hoyt and Artemis (2017) by Andy Weir (also author of The Martian (2011) which was made into a fine 2015 film). 

Gotta go.  So much to read – so little time.  

-Zenwind.