Prize for alternative history novels
Sidewise Award forMurray Davies 's novelCollaborator TheSidewise Awards for Alternate History were established in 1995 to recognize the bestalternate history stories and novels of the year.
The awards take their name from the 1934 short story "Sidewise in Time " byMurray Leinster , in which a strange storm causes portions of Earth to swap places with their analogs from other timelines.
The awards were created bySteven H Silver ,Evelyn C. Leeper , and Robert B. Schmunk. Over the years, the number of judges has fluctuated between three and eight and have included judges in theUnited States ,United Kingdom ,Canada andSouth Africa .
Two awards are normally presented each year, usually atWorldCon or at NASFiC . The Short-Form award is presented to a work under 60,000 words in length. The Long-Form award is presented to a work or works longer than 60,000 words, which may include a single novel or a multi-volume series. The judges have four times also recognized an individual with a Special Achievement Award in recognition for works published prior to the award's inception or for other contributions to the genre.
Note: The Sidewise Awards are announced as for the year of publication rather than by the year of award presentation.
1995 –Paul J. McAuley ,Pasquale's Angel 1996 –Stephen Baxter ,Voyage 1997 –Harry Turtledove ,How Few Remain 1998 –Stephen Fry ,Making History 1999 –Brendan DuBois ,Resurrection Day 2000 –Mary Gentle ,Ash: A Secret History 2001 – J. N. Stroyar,The Children's War 2002 –(tie) : Martin J. Gidron (name since changed to Martin Berman-Gorvine),The Severed Wing andHarry Turtledove ,Ruled Britannia 2003 –Murray Davies ,Collaborator 2004 –Philip Roth ,The Plot Against America 2005 –Ian R. MacLeod ,The Summer Isles 2006 –Charles Stross ,The Family Trade The Hidden Family The Clan Corporate 2007 –Michael Chabon ,The Yiddish Policemen's Union 2008 –Chris Roberson ,The Dragon's Nine Sons [ 1] 2009 –Robert Conroy ,1942 [ 2] 2010 –Eric G. Swedin ,When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis [ 3] 2011 –Ian R. MacLeod ,Wake Up and Dream 2012 –C. J. Sansom ,Dominion [ 4] 2013 – (tie)D. J. Taylor ,The Windsor Faction andBryce Zabel ,Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas? 2014 –Kristine Kathryn Rusch ,The Enemy Within [ 5] 2015 –Julie Mayhew ,The Big Lie 2016 –Ben H. Winters ,Underground Airlines 2017 –Bryce Zabel ,Once There Was a Way 2018 –Mary Robinette Kowal ,The Calculating Stars 2019 –Annalee Newitz ,The Future of Another Timeline 2020 –Adrian Tchaikovsky ,The Doors of Eden 2021 –Laurent Binet ,Civilizations Sam Taylor )[ 6] 2022 – B. L. Blanchard,The Peacekeeper [ 7] 2023 –Francis Spufford ,Cahokia Jazz 2024 –Sophie Burnham ,Sargassa 1995 –Stephen Baxter , "Brigantia's Angels"1996 –Walter Jon Williams , "Foreign Devils" (inWar of the Worlds: Global Dispatches 1997 –William Sanders , "The Undiscovered "1998 –Ian R. MacLeod ,The Summer Isles 1999 –Alain Bergeron , "The Eighth Register" (translated byHoward Scott )2000 –Ted Chiang , "Seventy-Two Letters "2001 –Ken MacLeod ,The Human Front 2002 –William Sanders , "Empire"2003 –Chris Roberson , "O One"2004 –Warren Ellis ,The Ministry of Space 2005 –Lois Tilton , "Pericles the Tyrant"2006 –Gardner Dozois , "Counterfactual"2007 –(tie) :Michael Flynn , "Quaestiones Super Caelo Et Mundo" &Kristine Kathryn Rusch , "Recovering Apollo 8"2008 –Mary Rosenblum , "Sacrifice"[ 1] 2009 –Alastair Reynolds , "The Fixation"[ 2] 2010 –Alan Smale , "A Clash of Eagles"[ 3] 2011 –Lisa Goldstein , "Paradise Is a Walled Garden"2012 –Rick Wilber , "Something Real"'[ 4] 2013 –Vylar Kaftan , "The Weight of the Sunrise "2014 –Ken Liu , "The Long Haul: From the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009"[ 5] 2015 –Bill Crider , "It Doesn't Matter Anymore"2016 –(tie) :Daniel M. Bensen , "Treasure Fleet" &Adam Rovner , "What If the Jewish State Had Been Established in East Africa"2017 –Harry Turtledove , "Zigeuner "2018 –Oscar (Xiu) Ramirez andEmmanuel Valtierra ,Codex Valtierra 2019 –Harry Turtledove , "Christmas Truce"2020 –Matthew Kresal , "Moonshot"2021 –Alan Smale , "Gunpowder Treason"[ 6] 2022 –(tie) : Eric Choi, "A Sky and a Heaven" &Wole Talabi "A Dream of Electric Mothers"[ 7] 2023 – Rosemary Claire Smith, "Apollo in Retrograde"2024 –L. Briar , "A Brother's Oath"Special Achievement [ edit ] 1995 –L. Sprague de Camp , lifetime achievement1997 –Robert Sobel ,For Want of a Nail 1999 –Randall Garrett , theLord Darcy series2018 –Eric Flint , for support of writers in the alternate history genre, most notably via the1632 series ^a b Glyer, Mike (August 9, 2009)."HailVoyageur " .File 770 . RetrievedSeptember 5, 2013 . ^a b Glyer, Mike (August 7, 2010)."2010 Sidewise Awards" .File 770 . RetrievedSeptember 5, 2013 . ^a b Glyer, Mike (August 20, 2011)."Sidewise Award Winners" .File 770 . RetrievedSeptember 5, 2013 . ^a b Glyer, Mike (August 31, 2013)."2013 Sidewise Awards" .File 770 . RetrievedSeptember 5, 2013 . ^a b "2015 Sidewise Awards Winners" .Locus . RetrievedAugust 17, 2015 .^a b Langford, David (September 5, 2022)."Sidewise Award" .The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction .Archived from the original on September 8, 2022. RetrievedSeptember 8, 2022 .^a b "2022 Sidewise Award Winners" .Locus . October 27, 2023.
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