A press release from Steven H Silver:
We are pleased to announce this year’s nominees for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. The winners will be announced at Chicon 7, this year’s Worldcon, in Chicago, Illinois during the weekend of August 30. The Sidewise Awards have been presented annually since 1995 to recognize excellence in alternate historical fiction. This year’s panel of judges was made up of Stephen Baxter, Evelyn Leeper, Jim Rittenhouse, Stu Shiffman, Kurt Sidaway, and Steven H Silver.
Short Form:
“The Iron Shirts” by Michael F. Flynn (Tor.com)
“Paradise Is a Walled Garden” by Lisa Goldstein (Asimov’s, 8/11)
“Orion Rising” by Jason Stoddard (Panverse 3, edited by Dario Ciriello, Panverse Publishing)
“Lee at the Alamo” by Harry Turtledove (Tor.com)
Long Form:
Castro’s Bomb by Robert Conroy (Kindle)
Himmler’s War by Robert Conroy (Baen Books)
Then Everything Changed by Jeff Greenfield (Putnam)
Wake Up and Dream by Ian R. MacLeod (PS Publishing)
Planesrunner by Ian McDonald (Pyr)
Heart of Iron by Ekaterina Sedia (Prime)
Camera Obscura by Lavie Tidhar (Angry Robot)
The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were conceived in late 1995 to honor the best allohistorical genre publications of the year. The first awards were announced in summer 1996 and honored works from 1995. The award takes its name from Murray Leinster’s 1934 short story “Sidewise in Time,” in which a strange storm causes portions of Earth to swap places with their analogs from other timelines.
This year’s nominees include previous winners Harry Turtledove (1997, 2002), Michael F. Flynn (2007), Ian R. MacLeod (1998, 2005), and Robert Conroy (2009). Jason Stoddard was previously nominated in 2005. First time nominees include Lisa Goldstein, Jeff Greenfield, Ian McDonald, Ekaterina Sedia, and Lavie Tidhar.
For more information, see uchronia.net/sidewise.