Sidewise Award
The Sidewise Award for Alternate History was created in 1996 to honor the best novels and stories in the field of alternative history every year .
The name of the award comes from the short story Sidewise in Time by Murray Leinster , published in 1934 , in which a strange storm causes different parts of the world to swap places with their equivalents from other timelines.
The founders of the award were Robert Schmunk , Evelyn Leeper and Steven H Silver , who are currently judges. Over the years, the jury has been expanded to eight people (including from Great Britain and South Africa ).
Every year two prizes are presented at Worldcon , The Short Form Award applies to works less than 60,000 words in length, while The Long Form Award applies to works over 60,000 words in length (regardless of whether they are individual works or entire series) . It is within the discretion of the judges to honor a person or a work with the Special Achievement Award ; here, what appeared before the introduction of the Sidewise Awards can be recognized . Works that were published in the previous year are honored.
Award winners
Long Form Award
- 1996 Paul J. McAuley , Pasquale's Angel
- 1997 Stephen Baxter , Voyage
- 1998 Harry Turtledove , How Few Remain
- 1999 Stephen Fry , Making History
- 2000 Brendan DuBois , Resurrection Day
- 2001 Mary Gentle , Ash: A Secret History
- 2002 JN Stroyar , The Children's War
- 2003 Tie : Martin J. Gidron , The Severed Wing and Harry Turtledove, Ruled Britannia
- 2004 Murray Davies , collaborator
- 2005 Philip Roth , The Plot Against America
- 2006 Ian R. MacLeod , The Summer Isles
- 2007 Charles Stross , The Family Trade , The Hidden Family and The Clan Corporate
- 2008 Michael Chabon , The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- 2009 Chris Roberson , The Dragon's Nine Sons
- 2010 Robert Conroy , 1942
- 2011 Eric Swedin , When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- 2012 Ian R. MacLeod, Wake Up and Dream
- 2013 CJ Sansom , Dominion
- 2014 Tie: Bryce Zabel , Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas? and DJ Taylor , The Windsor Faction
- 2015 Kristine Kathryn Rusch , The Enemy Within
- 2016 Julie Mayhew , The Big Lie
- 2017 Ben Winters , Underground Airlines
- 2018 Bryce Zabel, Once There Was A Way
- 2019 Mary Robinette Kowal , The Calculating Stars
Short Form Award
- 1996 Stephen Baxter , Brigantia's Angels
- 1997 Walter Jon Williams , Foreign Devils
- 1998 William Sanders , The Undiscovered
- 1999 Ian R. MacLeod , The Summer Isles
- 2000 Alain Bergeron , The Eighth Register (translated by Howard Scott )
- 2001 Ted Chiang , Seventy-two Letters
- 2002 Ken MacLeod , The Human Front
- 2003 William Sanders, Empire
- 2004 Chris Roberson , O One
- 2005 Warren Ellis , The Ministry of Space
- 2006 Lois Tilton , Pericles the Tyrant
- 2007 Gardner Dozois , Counterfactual
- 2008 Tied votes: Michael F. Flynn , Quaestiones Super Caelo Et Mundo and Kristine Kathryn Rusch , Recovering Apollo 8
- 2009 Mary Rosenblum , Sacrifice
- 2010 Alastair Reynolds , The Fixation
- 2011 Alan Smale , A Clash of Eagles
- 2012 Lisa Goldstein , Paradise Is a Walled Garden
- 2013 Rick Wilber , Something Real
- 2014 Vylar Kaftan , The Weight of the Sunrise
- 2015 Ken Liu , The Long Haul: From the 'Annals of Transportation', The Pacific Monthly, May 2009
- 2016 Bill Crider , It Doesn't Matter Anymore
- 2017 tie of votes: Daniel Bensen , Treasure Fleet and Adam Rovner , What If the Jewish State Had Been Established in East Africa
- 2018 Harry Turtledove , gypsy
- 2019 Oscar (Xiu) Ramirez and Emmanuel Valtierra , Codex Valtierra
Special Achievement Award
- 1996 Lyon Sprague de Camp , life's work
- 1998 Robert Sobel , For Want of a Nail
- 2000 Randall Garrett , the book series about Lord Darcy
- 2019 Eric Flint , the 1632 series
Web links
- The Sidewise Award website .
- Sidewise Awards , entry in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
- Sidewise Award , overview in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database