Prometheus Award

[dsrtao]

I see that the Prometheus Award, which is usually given for the best denunciation of right-wing libertarian by a Scottish or British writer, has a list of nominees up. Surprisingly, not only are all the authors [edit: North] American, but three of them* are actually libertarians.

Arctic Rising, Tobias Buckell (Tor)
The Unincorporated Future, Dani & Eytan Kollin (Tor)
Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow (Tor)
Darkship Renegades, Sarah Hoyt (Baen)
Kill Decision, Daniel Suarez (Penguin)

Hoyt and the Kollinses are libertarians; I think Suarez is too, but I can't swear to it.

Doctorow and Buckell are both in favor of civil liberties and (I think, based on written evidence) proper health care systems, so they count as socialists by the usual definition.

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Cory's Canadian by birth but he's a British citizen now, and Pirate Cinema is a very British book. It's the only one of these I've read. I liked it.

You're also using "British" very oddly. There is this place called Britain, which consists of the nations of England, Wales and Scotland. So you can be Scottish without being English or Welsh, but you can't be Scottish exclusively from being British, unless and until Scotland secedes. It's a bit like the US with states and Canada with provinces. It's as if you said "Texan or American writer".

[dsrtao]

Yes.