Sidewise Award for Murray Davies's novel Collaborator

The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were established in 1995 to recognize the best alternate history stories and novels of the year.

Overview

The awards take their name from the 1934 short story "Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster, in which a strange storm causes portions of Earth to swap places with their analogs from other timelines.

The awards were created by Steven 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 the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and South Africa.

Two awards are normally presented each year, usually at WorldCon 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.

Award winners

Long Form

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 & Harry 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, and 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 & Bryce 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 (translated by Sam Taylor)[6]
2022 B.L. Blanchard, The Peacekeeper[7]

Short Form

1995 Stephen Baxter, "Brigantia's Angels"
1996 Walter Jon Williams, "Foreign Devils" (in War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches)
1997 William Sanders, "The Undiscovered"
1998 Ian R. MacLeod, The Summer Isles
1999 Alain Bergeron, "The Eighth Register" (translated by Howard 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 and Emmanuel 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]

Special Achievement

1995 L. Sprague de Camp, lifetime achievement
1997 Robert Sobel, For Want of a Nail
1999 Randall Garrett, the Lord Darcy series
2018 Eric Flint, for support of writers in the alternative history genre, most notably via the 1632 series

References

  1. 1 2 Glyer, Mike (August 9, 2009). "Hail Voyageur". File 770. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Glyer, Mike (August 7, 2010). "2010 Sidewise Awards". File 770. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
  3. 1 2 Glyer, Mike (August 20, 2011). "Sidewise Award Winners". File 770. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
  4. 1 2 Glyer, Mike (August 31, 2013). "2013 Sidewise Awards". File 770. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
  5. 1 2 "2015 Sidewise Awards Winners". Locus. August 17, 2015. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  6. 1 2 Langford, David (September 5, 2022). "Sidewise Award". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Archived from the original on September 8, 2022. Retrieved September 8, 2022.
  7. 1 2 "2022 Sidewise Award Winners". Locus. October 27, 2023.
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