Award Administrator Steven H Silver announces the nominees for the 2010 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History. The winners will be announced at Renovation, this year’s World Science Fiction Convention, in Reno, Nevada during the weekend of 17 August (the ceremony is tentatively scheduled for 9PM on Thursday 18 August). The winners are selected by a panel of judges that currently includes Stephen Baxter, Evelyn Leeper, Jim Rittenhouse, Stu Shiffman, Kurt Sidaway, and Steven H Silver.
The nominees for best Short Form are:
“Mammoths of the Great Plains” by Eleanor Arnason (PM Press)
“Alter Kameraden” by Barry B. Longyear (Asimov’s Science Fiction, April 2010)
“Sidewinders” by Ken MacLeod (The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories, Robinson Publishing/Running Press)
“A Clash of Eagles” by Alan Smale (Panverse Two, Panverse Publishing)
“Goin’ Down to Anglotown” by William F. Wu (The Dragon and the Stars, DAW Books)
The nominees for best Long Form are:
Columbia & Britannia by Adam Chamberlain & Brian A. Dixon (Fourth Horseman Press)
Red Inferno: 1945 by Robert Conroy (Ballantine Books)
Pinion by Jay Lake (Tor Books)
When Angels Wept by Eric Swedin (Potomac Books)