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Old 04-05-2012, 03:39 AM   #1
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e-book is Prometheus Award Finalist
The Prometheus Award (Wikipedia) is for libertarian science fiction novels given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society. Its 2012 Finalists (book list with covers) include a work available only as an e-book:
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In the Shadow of Ares (Amazon Kindle edition) - This young-adult first novel by Thomas L. James and Carl C. Carlsson focuses on a Mars-born female teenager in a near-future, small civilization on Mars, where hardworking citizens are constantly and unjustly constrained by a growing, centralized authority whose excessive power has led to corruption and conflict.
This isn't a major award, but it is the first longstanding book award that I am aware of that has an e-book only finalist.
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Old 04-05-2012, 04:42 AM   #2
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What does the description libertarian denote ?
Just curious - I've got my head round punk/steamboat/opera/Western/had/soft, etc... but obviously haven't been exposed to this yet.

Or I have, and just didn't read the blurb carefully enough....
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Libertarian is usually used to describe small government proponents. The "get the gubbermint outta my life crowd." Heinlein, Ayn Rand, etc...
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Am I the only one who sees some inconsistency in an Amazon ebook being give an libertarian award? A more controlling and intrusive organisation would be hard to imagine.

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