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Sidewise Award
These annual awards for Alternate History fiction were conceived in 1995 by Evelyn C Leeper, Robert B Schmunk and Steven H Silver, and have since been presented annually in two categories, Long Form for works of more than 60,000 words and Short Form for works (including poems) of less than 60,000 words. The awards' name is a homage to Murray Leinster's short Timeslip/Parallel Worlds story "Sidewise in Time" (June 1934 Astounding).
The winners below are listed by their year of eligibility, theoretically corresponding to first English language publication but usually – for non-US work – deferred until first US publication. Special Achievement awards are occasionally presented, either to mark notable examples of alternate history which precede the founding of the Sidewise Awards (after the manner of the Retro Hugos) or as career achievement honours. These are listed by year of presentation.
The 2019 awards which would normally have been presented in 2020 were held over until the 2021 Worldcon (at which the 2020 awards were also presented) owing to complications caused by the coronavirus pandemic. [DRL]
Long form
- 1995: Paul J McAuley, Pasquale's Angel (1994)
- 1996: Stephen Baxter, Voyage (1996)
- 1997: Harry Turtledove, How Few Remain (1997)
- 1998: Stephen Fry, Making History (1996)
- 1999: Brendan DuBois, Resurrection Day (1999)
- 2000: Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History (2000)
- 2001: J N Stroyar, The Children's War (2001)
- 2002: (tie) Martin J Gidron, The Severed Wing (2002); Harry Turtledove, Ruled Britannia (2002)
- 2003: Murray Davies, Collaborator (2003)
- 2004: Philip Roth, The Plot Against America (2004)
- 2005: Ian R MacLeod, The Summer Isles (October/November 1998 Asimov's; exp 2005)
- 2006: Charles Stross, Merchant Princes volumes 1-3: The Family Trade (2004), The Hidden Family (2005) and The Clan Corporate (2006)
- 2007: Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007)
- 2008: Chris Roberson, The Dragon's Nine Sons (2008)
- 2009: Robert Conroy, 1942 (2009)
- 2010: Eric G Swedin, When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (2010)
- 2011: Ian R MacLeod, Wake Up and Dream (2011)
- 2012: C J Sansom, Dominion (2012)
- 2013: (tie) D J Taylor, The Windsor Faction (2013); Bryce Zabel, Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas? (2013)
- 2014: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, The Enemy Within (as "G-Men" in Sideways in Crime, anth 2008, ed Lou Anders; exp 2014)
- 2015: Julie Mayhew, The Big Lie (2015)
- 2016: Ben H Winters, Underground Airlines (2016)
- 2017: Bryce Zabel, Once There Was a Way (2017)
- 2018: Mary Robinette Kowal, The Calculating Stars (2018)
- 2019: Annalee Newitz, The Future of Another Timeline (2019)
- 2020: Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden (2020)
- 2021: Laurent Binet, Civilizations (2019; trans by Sam Taylor as Civilisations 2021)
- 2022: B L Blanchard, The Peacekeeper (2022)
- 2023: Francis Spufford, Cahokia Jazz (2023)
Short form
- 1995: Stephen Baxter, "Brigantia's Angels" (January 1995 Asimov's)
- 1996: Walter Jon Williams, "Foreign Devils" (January 1996 Asimov's)
- 1997: William Sanders, "The Undiscovered" (March 1997 Asimov's)
- 1998: Ian R MacLeod, "The Summer Isles" (October/November 1998 Asimov's)
- 1999: Alain Bergeron, "The Eighth Register" (in Northern Suns, anth 1999, ed Glenn Grant and David G Hartwell)
- 2000: Ted Chiang, "Seventy-Two Letters" (in Vanishing Acts, anth 2000, ed Ellen Datlow)
- 2001: Ken MacLeod, The Human Front (2002)
- 2002: William Sanders, "Empire" (in Alternate Generals II, anth 2002, ed Harry Turtledove)
- 2003: Chris Roberson, "O One" (in Live Without a Net, anth 2003, ed Lou Anders)
- 2004: Warren Ellis, Chris Weston, and Laura DuPuy Martin, Ministry of Space (3 issues, May 2001-April 2004 Ministry of Space)
- 2005: Lois Tilton, "Pericles the Tyrant" (October/November 2005 Asimov's)
- 2006: Gardner R Dozois, "Counterfactual" (June 2006 F&SF)
- 2007: (tie) Michael Flynn, "Quaestiones Super Caelo et Mundo" (July/August 2007 Analog); Kristine Kathryn Rusch, "Recovering Apollo 8" (February 2007 Asimov's)
- 2008: Mary Rosenblum, "Sacrifice" (in Sideways in Crime, anth 2008, ed Lou Anders)
- 2009: Alastair Reynolds, "The Fixation" (in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Three, anth 2009, ed George Mann)
- 2010: Alan Smale, "A Clash of Eagles" (Panverse Two: Five Original Novellas of Science Fiction and Fantasy, anth 2010, ed Dario Ciriello)
- 2011: Lisa Goldstein, "Paradise Is a Walled Garden" (August 2011 Asimov's).
- 2012: Rick Wilber, "Something Real" (April 2012 Asimov's)
- 2013: Vylar Kaftan, "The Weight of the Sunrise" (February 2013 Asimov's)
- 2014: Ken Liu, "The Long Haul: From the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009" (November 2014 Clarkesworld)
- 2015: Bill Crider, "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" (in Tales from the Otherverse: Stories of Alternate History, anth 2015, ed James Reasoner)
- 2016: (tie) Daniel Bensen, "Treasure Fleet" (in Tales from Alternate Earths, anth 2016, ed anon); Adam Rovner, "What If the Jewish State Had Been Established in East Africa?" (in What Ifs of Jewish History: From Abraham to Zionism, anth 2016, ed Gavriel D Rosenfeld)
- 2017: Harry Turtledove, "Zigeuner" (September/October 2017 Asimov's)
- 2018: Oscar (Xiu) Ramirez and Emmanuel Valtierra, Codex Valtierra (2017 ebook)
- 2019: Harry Turtledove, "Christmas Truce" (November 2019 Asimov's)
- 2020: Matthew Kresal, "Moonshot" (in Alternate Australias, anth 2020, ed Jared Kavanagh)
- 2021: Alan Smale, "Gunpowder Treason" (in Tales from Alternate Earths, Vol III, anth 2021, ed anon)
- 2022: (tie) Wole Talabi, "Dreams of Electric Mothers" (in Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, anth 2022, ed Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Zelda Knight and Sheree Renée Thomas); Eric Choi, "A Sky and a Heaven" (in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, anth 2022, ed Andrea D Lobel and Mark Shainblum)
- 2023: Rosemary Claire Smith, "Apollo in Retrograde" (November/December 2023 Analog)
Special achievement
- 1995: L Sprague de Camp, various works including Lest Darkness Fall (December 1939 Unknown; exp 1941; rev 1949), "The Wheels of If" (October 1940 Unknown) and "Aristotle and the Gun" (February 1958 Astounding)
- 1997: Robert Sobel, For Want of a Nail ...; If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga (1973)
- 1999: Randall Garrett, the Lord Darcy sequence
- 2019: Eric Flint
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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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