Award Administrator Steven H Silver announces the nominees for the 2008 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History. The winners will be announced at Anticipation, the 67th WorldCon, this August.
The winners are selected from a panel of judges that currently includes Stephen Baxter, Evelyn Leeper, Jim Rittenhouse, Stuart Shiffman, Kurt Sidaway, and Steven H Silver.
The nominees for best Short Form are:
“The People’s Machine” by Tobias Buckell (published in Sideways in Crime, Solaris)
“Poison Victory” by Albert E. Cowdrey (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 2008)
“A Brief Guide to Other Histories” by Paul McAuley (Postscripts #15)
“Night Bird Soaring” by T.L. Morganfield (Greatest Uncommon Denominator, Autumn 2008)
“Sacrifice” by Mary Rosenblum (Sideways in Crime, Solaris)
“G-Men” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Sideways in Crime, Solaris)
The nominees for best Long Form are:
The Affinity Bridge by George Mann (Snowbooks/Tor)
Nation by Terry Pratchett (HarperCollins/Doubleday UK)
The Dragon’s Nine Sons by Chris Roberson (Solaris)
Swiftly by Adam Roberts (Gollancz)
Half a Crown by Jo Walton (Tor)