Reviewing the Prometheus Award Finalists
For Best Pro-Freedom SFF Novel of 2026

Blazing Reader,

Yesterday, my editor, Peter Toccalino, and I recorded a 40-minute video in which we quickly look at the fourteen nominations for this year's Prometheus Awards. These are all science fiction or fantasy novels with a pro-liberty or anti-tyranny theme (including my novel, All The Humans Are Sleeping). After reviewing the line-up, we read the announcement from the judges revealing the five finalists...

You can watch it on YouTube, BitChute, Rumble and X.

If you like it, please share it (help promote the fiction you want to see in the world).

—John C.A. Manley

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.