The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History

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Winners and Finalists

Winners are in bold print and marked by a leading asterisk.

Notes: Prior to the 1997 awards, the short list of finalists was not announced in advance, and runners-up were simply listed as "honorable mention".

Short Form

Long Form

2006

* Gardner Dozois. "Counterfactual"
In The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2006

Stephen Baxter. The Pacific Mystery
In The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction: New Generation Far-Future SF (ed. Mike Ashley)
Constable & Robinson 2006 and Carroll & Graf 2006

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff. "O, Pioneer"
In Paradox #8 (Winter 2005-06)

Chris Floyd. "History Lesson"
In The Moscow Times, Feb. 22, 2006

Martin Gidron. "Palestina"
In Interzone #204 (June 2006)

Brian Stableford. "The Plurality of Worlds"
In Asimov's August 2006

Andrew Tisbert. "The Meteor of the War"
In Paradox #9 (Summer 2006)

Charles Stross. Merchant Princes, vol. 1-3
The Family Trade, The Hidden Family, and The Clan Corporate
Tor 2004-2006

Robert Conroy. 1862
Presidio Press 2006

Paul Park. The Tourmaline
Tor 2006

Harry Turtledove. The Disunited States of America
Tor 2006

Jo Walton. Farthing
Tor 2006

2006
2005

* Tilton, Lois. "Pericles the Tyrant"
In Asimov's October/November 2005

William Barton. "Harvest Moon"
In Asimov's September 2005

A.M. Dellamonica. "The Illuminated Heretic"
In Alternate Generals III (ed. Harry Turtledove)

Kim Newman and Paul McAuley. "The 2005 Hugo Award Ceremony Script"
Posted on Kim Newman Website, September 2005

Jason Stoddard. "Panacea"
Posted on SciFiction, Sep. 14, 2005

* Ian R. MacLeod. The Summer Isles
Aio

Sophia McDougall. Romanitas
Orion UK

Paul Park. A Princess of Roumania
Tor; Also Tor 2006

2005
2004

* Warren Ellis, Chris Weston, and Laura DuPuy Martin. Ministry of Space
Image Comics 2001/2004 (reprinted 2005)

L. Timmel Duchamp. "The Heloise Archive"
In Love's Body, Dancing in Time, Aqueduct Press

Sean Klein. "Five Guys Named Moe"
Posted on-line at SciFiction, Feb. 23, 2004

John McDaid. "The Ashbazu Effect"
In ReVisions (eds. Czerneda and Szpindel), DAW Books

Chris Roberson. "Red Hands, Black Hands"
In Asimov's December 2004

Lois Tilton. "The Gladiator's War: A Dialogue"
In Asimov's June 2004

* Roth, Philip. The Plot Against America
Houghton Mifflin, Vintage

2004
2003

* Chris Roberson. "O One"
In Live Without a Net (ed. Lou Anders), NAL/Roc

Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero. "The Day We Went Through the Transition"
Translated from the Spanish by Yolanda Molina-Gavilán
In Cosmos Latinos (eds. Andrea L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán), Wesleyan University Press
Originally "El día que hicimos la Transitión", in Visiones 1997 (ed. Rafael Marín), AEFCF 1997

Geoffrey Landis. "The Eyes of America"
Posted on-line at SciFiction, May 7

Robert L. O'Connell. "The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust"
In What Ifs? of American History (ed. Robert Cowley), Putnam's

Robert Silverberg. "The Reign of Terror"
In Asimov's Science Fiction, April, and in Roma Eterna, HarperCollins/Eos

* Murray Davies. Collaborator
Macmillan UK

Mitchell Freedman. Disturbance of Fate
Seven Locks Press

Larry Kirwan. Liverpool Fantasy
Thunder's Mouth Press

S.M. Stirling. Conquistador
NAL/Roc; Also Roc 2004

2003
2002

* William Sanders. "Empire"
In Alternate Generals II (ed. Turtledove), Baen

Charles Coleman Finlay. "We Come Not to Praise Washington"
In The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August
Also in One Lamp (ed. Van Gelder), Four Walls Eight Windows 2003

John Kessel. "The Invisible Empire"
In Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists (ed. Straub), Bard College

Robert Silverberg. "With Caesar in the Underworld"
In Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November
Also in Roma Eterna, HarperCollins/Eos 2003

Walter Jon Williams. "The Last Ride of German Freddie"
In Worlds that Weren't (ed. Gilman), NAL/Roc. Also NAL/Roc 2003

(tie) * Martin J. Gidron. The Severed Wing
Livingston

(tie) * Harry Turtledove. Ruled Britannia
NAL/Roc; Also Roc 2006

Gary Blackwood. The Year of the Hangman
Dutton; Also Puffin 2004

Christopher Priest. The Separation
Scribner's UK

S.M. Stirling. The Peshawar Lancers
NAL/Roc. Also Roc 2003.

2002
2001

* Ken MacLeod. The Human Front
PS Publishing. Also in Year's Best SF, 19th Collection (ed. Dozois), St. Martin's 2002

Stephen Baxter and Simon Bradshaw. "First to the Moon"
In Spectrum SF #6

* J.N. Stroyar. The Children's War
Pocket 2001. Also Washington Square 2002.

J. Gregory Keyes. The Age of Unreason
Newton's Cannon, A Calculus of Angels, Empire of Unreason, The Shadows of God
Ballantine/Del Rey 1998-2001

Allen Steele. Chronospace
Ace 2001. Also Ace 2002.

2001
2000

* Ted Chiang. "Seventy-Two Letters"
In Vanishing Acts (ed. Datlow), Tor

Eugene Byrne. "HMS Habakkuk"
In Interzone #155 (May)

Paul J. McAuley. "A Very British History"
In Interzone #157 (July)

Kim Newman. "The Other Side of Midnight: Anno Dracula 1981"
In The Vampire Sextette (ed. Kaye), Science Fiction Book Club

Carla Cristina Pereira. "Xochiquetzal"
Translated from the Portuguese by David Alan Prescott.
In Altair #6/7 (April)
Originally published as "Xochiquetzal e a Esquadra da Vingança" in Pecar a Sete / Sinning in Sevens (eds. António de Macedo and Silvana de Menezes), Simetria 1999

* Mary Gentle. Ash: A Secret History
Gollancz. Published in the US in four volumes as A Secret History (Avon/Eos 1999), Carthage Ascendant (Avon/Eos), The Wild Machines (Avon/Eos), and Lost Burgundy (Avon/Eos)

Suzanne Allés Blom. Inca: The Scarlet Fringe
Tor/Forge. Also Tor 2001.

S.M. Stirling. Nantucket Trilogy (aka Islander Trilogy)
Island in the Sea of Time (NAL/Roc 1998), Against the Tide of Years (NAL/Roc 1999), On the Oceans of Eternity (NAL/Roc)

2000
1999

* Alain Bergeron. "The Eighth Register"
Translated from the French by Howard Scott.
In Northern Suns (eds. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant), Tor (1st Amer. ed.). Also Tor 2000.
First English pub. in TesseractsQ (eds. Élisabeth Vonarburg and Jane Brierley), Tesseract 1996.
Original French publication as "Le huitième registre", in Solaris #107 (Autumn 1993).

Jan Lars Jensen. "Secret History of the Ornithopter"
In The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction June.
Also in One Lamp (ed. Van Gelder), Four Walls Eight Windows 2003

Robert Silverberg. "Getting to Know the Dragon"
In Far Horizons (ed. Silverberg), Avon/Eos.
Also in Roma Eterna, HarperCollins/Eos 2003

Robert Silverberg. "A Hero of the Empire"
In The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November
Also in Roma Eterna, HarperCollins/Eos 2003 and One Lamp (ed. Van Gelder), Four Walls Eight Windows 2003

* Brendan DuBois. Resurrection Day
Putnam's. Also Jove 2000

1999
1998

* Ian R. MacLeod. "The Summer Isles"
In Asimov's October/November

Stephen Baxter & Arthur C. Clarke. "The Wire Continuum"
In Playboy January

Robert Silverberg. "Waiting for the End"
In Asimov's October/November
Also in Roma Eterna, HarperCollins/Eos 2003

Howard Waldrop. "US"
In Event Horizon October 14

* Stephen Fry. Making History
Random House (1st Amer. ed.). Original English publication Hutchinson 1996. Also Soho 1999

Greg Bear. Dinosaur Summer
Warner. Also Warner/Aspect 1999

Pamela Sargent. Climb the Wind
HarperPrism. Also HarperPrism 1999

1998
1997

* William Sanders. "The Undiscovered"
In Asimov's, March. Also in Year's Best SF, 15th Collection (ed. Dozois), St. Martin's 1998 (tpb)

Lee Allred. "For the Strength of the Hills"
In L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XIII (ed. Wolverton), Bridge

Roland J. Green. "The King of Poland's Foot Cavalry"
In Alternate Tyrants (ed. Resnick), Tor

Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne. "Teddy Bears' Picnic"
In Interzone #122-123 (Aug-Sep) and in Byrne and Newman's Back in the USSA, Zeising

* Harry Turtledove. How Few Remain
Ballantine/Del Rey. Also Ballantine/Del Rey 1998

Peter Delacorte. Time on My Hands: A Novel
Scribner's. Also Washington Square 1998

Michael Swanwick. Jack Faust
Avon. Also Avon 1999.

1997
1996

* Walter Jon Williams. "Foreign Devils"
In Asimov's (January) and War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (ed. Anderson), Bantam/Spectra. Also in Year's Best SF, 14th Collection (ed. Dozois), St. Martin's 1997 (hc), St. Martin's 1997 (tpb)

William Barton. "Age of Aquarius"
In Asimov's, May

John Kessel. "The Miracle of Ivar Avenue"
In Asimov's, September. Also in The Pure Product, Tor 1997, Tor 1999

Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne. "Abdication Street"
In Interzone #105 (March). Also in Back in the USSA, Ziesing 1997

Mark W. Tiedemann. "Resurrection"
In War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (ed. Anderson), Bantam/Spectra

* Stephen Baxter. Voyage
HarperCollins UK. Also HarperPrism 1997

Orson Scott Card. Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Tor. Also Tor 1997

Harry Harrison and John Holm. The Hammer and the Cross Trilogy
The Hammer and the Cross (Legend 1993. Also Tor 1994),
One King's Way (Legend 1995. Also Tor 1996),
King and Emperor (Legend, Tor. Also Tor 1997)

Harry Turtledove. Worldwar
In the Balance (Ballantine/Del Rey 1994. Also Ballantine/Del Rey 1996),
Tilting the Balance (Ballantine/Del Rey 1995. Also Ballantine/Del Rey 1996),
Upsetting the Balance (Ballantine/Del Rey (hc), Ballantine/Del Rey (pb)),
Striking the Balance (Ballantine/Del Rey. Also Ballantine/Del Rey 1997)

1996
1995

* Stephen Baxter. "Brigantia's Angels"
In Interzone #91 (January)

Stephen Dedman. "From Whom All Blessings Flow"
In Asimov's, April. Also in Centaurus (eds. Hartwell and Broderick), Tor 1999

David Garnett. "Brute Skill"
In Interzone #93 (March)

Jonathan Lethem & Carter Scholz. "Receding Horizon"
In Crank! #5, Summer.

Maureen McHugh. "The Lincoln Train"
In The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April. Also in Year's Best SF, 13th Collection (ed. Dozois), St. Martin's 1996 (tpb) and One Lamp (ed. Van Gelder), Four Walls Eight Windows 2003

Harry Turtledove. "Must and Shall"
In Asimov's, November. Also in Nebula Awards 32 (ed. Dann), Harcourt Brace 1998 (hc), Harcourt Brace 1998 (tpb)

Howard Waldrop. "You Could Go Home Again"
On Omni On-Line, June. Also in Going Home Again, St. Martin's 1998

* Paul J. McAuley. Pasquale's Angel
Morrow/AvoNova (1st Amer. ed.). Original English publication Gollancz 1994. Also Avon/Eos 1997

Richard Dreyfuss & Harry Turtledove. The Two Georges
Hodder & Stoughton. Also Tor 1997

Kim Newman. The Bloody Red Baron
Simon & Schuster UK, Carroll & Graf

1995

Special Achievement

1999

Randall Garrett
For the Lord Darcy stories, including the collection Murder and Magic, the novel Too Many Magicians, the collection Lord Darcy Investigates, and "The Spell of War".

1999
1997

Robert Sobel. For Want of a Nail...; If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga
MacMillan 1972, Greenhill 1997

1997
1995

L. Sprague de Camp
For seminal works in the field, including Lest Darkness Fall (1939), "The Wheels of If" (1940), and "A Gun for Aristotle" (1958).

1995

 

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