Libertarian Futurist Society Announces First National Conference
Matthew Gaylor
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:28:17 EST
Subject: News update about Libertarian Futurist Society conference
To: free...@coil.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jan. 28, 2001
Libertarian Futurist Society announces first national conference
(Reply to mikeg...@aol.com)
The Libertarian Futurist Society will celebrate its 20th
anniversary by
sponsoring its first national conference May 25-27 at Marcon 36 at the
Hyatt
Regency hotel and Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio.
LFScon will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear Prometheus
Award
winners and LFS leaders explore the future of freedom and the potential
of
libertarian science fiction to shape a more rational, diverse, tolerant
and
optimistic vision of what is possible in the 21st and coming centuries.
The Libertarian Futurist Society will present its 2001 Prometheus
Hall of
Fame awards ceremony before an audience of more than 1,500 people
during the
intermission of Marcon's Saturday night masquerade-- its most popular
event.
LFScon will feature more Prometheus Awardwinning novelists than any
other
sf convention or libertarian conference in history. So far, the LFS
has
confirmed eight Prometheus Awardwinners, who collectively have won 11
Best
Novel awards and five Hall of Fame awards: special LFScon Guest of
Honor L.
Neil Smith (The Probability Broach, Pallas), Poul Anderson (Trader to
the
Stars, The Stars are Also Fire, The Star Fox), F. Paul Wilson (Healer,
Wheels
within Wheels, An Enemy of the State), James Hogan (Voyage From
Yesteryear,
The Multiplex Man), Vernor Vinge (Marooned in Realtime, A Deepness in
the
Sky), J. Neil Schulman (Alongside Night, The Rainbow Cadenza), Brad
Linaweaver (Moon of Ice) and Victor Milan (The Cybernetic Samurai.)
Marcon and LFScon are jointly planning a major LFScon program
track,
with a dozen major panels on libertarian themes, including:
* Heinlein's Children: The Libertarian Writers of Science Fiction.’
with a
full panel of our Prometheus Awardwinners;
* Will the Future Be More or Less Free?
* Who Wants to Be a Zillionaire in Space?- A Free Market Approach to
Exploring, Industrializing and Colonizing the Solar System
* Intelligent Self-Defense, the 2nd Amendment and the Hi-Tech Weaponry
of the
Future
* The Internet & the First Amendment’ Electronic Frontiers
* Illuminati! -- Conspiracies, Real and Imagined
* Cloning & Artificial intelligence: The Freedom Issues
* Freedom Filk: A Filk (sf folksinging) Concert in Honor of Liberty,
with
filking pioneer Karen Anderson, Poul Anderson's wife.
As Ohio's oldest and largest sf/fantasy convention, Marcon annually
attracts more than 3,000 people (3,400 last year), including authors,
artists, editors, scientists, costumers, gamers and fans from more than
30
states and Canada. There's something for everyone, including
autographing
sessions (with all Prometheus Awardwinners); author readings; dances;
parties (including an LFS Friday night bash in a Hyatt Hotel suite);
art show
& auction; charity auction; panel discussions on separate program
tracks
about literature, science, animation, art, children's programming and
more;
and a large dealer's room (with 120 tables, including a large
Libertarian
Futurist Society exhibit/book-sale.)
Besides freedom, Marcon's other 2001 program themes will be
intelligence
(in honor of 2001: A Space Odyssey's and "2001" guest star Gary
Lockwood) and heroic fantasy (in honor of Marcon fantasy guest Robert
Jordan.) Other featured Marcon/LFScon guests include ’ Babylon 5's
actor
Peter Woodward, libertarian sf authors Steven Burgauer ("The
Grandfather
Paradox,’The Last American) and Joseph Martino (author of "Science
Funding: Politics & Porkbarrel" and "Analog" short stories); First
Amendment/Internet advocate Matt Gaylor; and LFS leaders Victoria
Varga, Amy
Rule, Chris Hibbert and Lynn Maners.
Deadline is March 10 for advance-discount LFScon/Marcon
registrations--with a special offer of $75/person for non-members,
including
a trial-year Basic LFS membership, and $60/person for new LFS members's
guests. Mail your name, address, email, phone number and guest names
along
with your check (make checks to Libertarian Futurist Society) to
LFScon, c/o
R.W. Coffin, 3164 Plymouth Place, Columbus OH 43213.
For more information, explore the website at www.lfs.org, email
mikeg...@aol.com, or call 614-236-5040.
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