Sidewise Awards For Alternate History
The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were conceived in late 1995 to honor the best works of fiction involving alternative histories.
2004
(awarded in 2005)

LONG FORM
Winner:
  • The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
Nominees:
  • No other finalists were named to the long-form short list.
SHORT FORM
Winner:
  • Ministry of Space, by Warren Ellis, Chris Weston, and Laura DuPuy Martin
Nominees:
  • "The Heloise Archive", by L. Timmel Duchamp.  In: Love's Body, Dancing in Time, Aqueduct Press
  • "Five Guys Named Moe", by Sean Klein. Posted on-line at SciFiction Feb. 23, 2004
  • "The Ashbazu Effect", by John McDaid. In: ReVisions (eds. Czerneda and Szpindel), DAW Books
  • "Red Hands, Black Hands", by Chris Roberson. In Asimov's December 2004
  • "The Gladiator's War: A Dialogue", by Lois Tilton. In Asimov's June 2004
2003
(awarded in 2004)

LONG FORM
Winner:
  • Collaborator, by Murray Davies
Nominees:
  • Disturbance of Fate, by Mitchell Freedman
  • Liverpool Fantasy, by Larry Kirwan
  • Conquistador, by S.M. Stirling

SHORT FORM
Winner:
  • "O One", by Chris Roberson. In: Live Without a Net (ed. Lou Anders)
Nominees:
  • "The Day We Went Through the Transition", by Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero. Translated from the Spanish by Yolanda Molina-Gavilán.  In: Cosmos Latinos (eds. Andrea L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán)
  • "The Eyes of America", by Geoffrey Landis. Posted on-line at SciFiction May 7
  • "The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust", by Robert L. O'Connell. In: What Ifs? of American History
  • "The Reign of Terror", by Robert Silverberg. In: Asimov's Science Fiction, April, and in Roma Eterna, HarperCollins/Eos
2002

LONG FORM
Winners:
  • The Severed Wing, by Martin J. Gidron
  • Ruled Britannia, by Harry Turtledove
Nominees:
  • The Year of the Hangman, by Gary Blackwood
  • The Separation, by Christopher Priest
  • The Peshawar Lancers, by S.M. Stirling

SHORT FORM
Winner:
  • "Empire", by William Sanders. In: Alternate Generals II (ed. Turtledove)
Nominees:
  • "We Come Not to Praise Washington", by Charles Coleman Finlay. In: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August.  Also in One Lamp (ed. Van Gelder).
  • "The Invisible Empire", by John Kessel. In: Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists (ed. Straub)
  • "With Caesar in the Underworld", by Robert Silverberg. In: Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November. Also in Roma Eterna, HarperCollins/Eos 2003
  • "The Last Ride of German Freddie", by Walter Jon Williams. In: Worlds that Weren't (ed. Gilman)
2001

LONG FORM
Winner:
  • The Children's War, by J.N. Stroyar
Nominees:
  • "The Age of Unreason Series", by J. Gregory Keyes
    • Newton's Cannon
    • A Calculus of Angels
    • Empire of Unreason
    • The Shadows of God
  • Chronospace, by Allen Steele

SHORT FORM
Winner:
  • The Human Front, by Ken MacLeod. Also in TheYear's Best Science Fiction, 19th Annual Collection (ed. Dozois)
Nominees:
  • "First to the Moon", by Stephen Baxter and Simon Bradshaw. In: Spectrum SF #6
2000

LONG FORM
Winner:
Ash: A Secret History, by Mary Gentle.
Published in the U.S. in four volumes as:
  • A Secret History
  • Carthage Ascendant
  • The Wild Machines
  • Lost Burgundy
Nominees:
  • Inca: The Scarlet Fringe, by Suzanne Allés Blom
  • "Nantucket Trilogy" (aka "Islander Trilogy"), by S.M. Stirling
    • Island in the Sea of Time
    • Against the Tide of Years
    • On the Oceans of Eternity

SHORT FORM
Winner:
  • "Seventy-Two Letters", by Ted Chiang. In: Vanishing Acts (ed. Datlow)
Nominees:
  • "HMS Habakkuk", by Eugene Byrne. In Interzone, #155, (May)
  • "A Very British History", by Paul J. McAuley. In: Interzone, #157, (July)
  • "The Other Side of Midnight: Anno Dracula 1981", by Kim Newman. In: The Vampire Sextette (ed. Kaye)
  • "Xochiquetzal", by Carla Cristina Pereira. Translated from the Portuguese by David Alan Prescott. In: Altair, #6/7, (April)
1999

LONG FORM
Winner:
  • Resurrection Day, by Brendan DuBois

SHORT FORM
Winner:
  • "The Eighth Register", by Alain Bergeron.  In: Northern Suns (eds. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant)
Nominees:
  • "Secret History of the Ornithopter", by Jan Lars Jensen. In:  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June.  Also in One Lamp (ed. Van Gelder).
  • "Getting to Know the Dragon", by Robert Silverberg. In: Far Horizons (ed. Silverberg).  Also in Roma Eterna.
  • "A Hero of the Empire", by Robert Silverberg.  In:  The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November.  Also in Roma Eterna, HarperCollins/Eos 2003 and One Lamp (ed. Van Gelder)
1998

LONG FORM
Winner:
  • Making History, by Stephen Fry
Nominees:
  • Dinosaur Summer, by Greg Bear
  • Climb the Wind, by Pamela Sargent

SHORT FORM
Winner:
  • "The Summer Isles", by Ian R. MacLeod. In Asimov's October/November
Nominees:
  • "The Wire Continuum", by Stephen Baxter & Arthur C. Clarke. In: Playboy January
  • "Waiting for the End", by Robert Silverberg.  In: Asimov's October/November.  Also in Roma Eterna, HarperCollins/Eos 2003.
  • "US", by Howard Waldrop. In: Event Horizon October 14
1997

LONG FORM
Winner:
  • How Few Remain, by Harry Turtledove
Nominees:
  • Time on My Hands: A Novel, by Peter Delacorte
  • Jack Faust, by Michael Swanwick

SHORT FORM
Winner:
  • "The Undiscovered", by William Sanders. In: Asimov's, March. Also in Year's Best SF, 15th Collection (ed. Dozois).
Nominees:
  • "For the Strength of the Hills", by Lee Allred. In L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XIII (ed. Wolverton).
  • "The King of Poland's Foot Cavalry", by Roland J. Green. In Alternate Tyrants (ed. Resnick).
  • "Teddy Bears' Picnic", by Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne. In Interzone #122-123 (Aug-Sep) and in Back in the USSA.
1996

LONG FORM
Winner:
  • Voyage, by Stephen Baxter
Nominees:
  • Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, by Orson Scott Card
  • The Hammer and the Cross Trilogy, by Harry Harrison and John Holm
    • The Hammer and the Cross
    • One King's Way
    • King and Emperor
  • Worldwar Series, by Harry Turtledove
    • In the Balance
    • Tilting the Balance
    • Upsetting the Balance
    • Striking the Balance

SHORT FORM
Winner:
  • "Foreign Devils", by Walter Jon Williams. In: Asimov's (January) and War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (ed. Anderson). Also in Year's Best SF, 14th Collection (ed. Dozois).
Nominees:
  • "Age of Aquarius", by William Barton. In: Asimov's, May
  • "The Miracle of Ivar Avenue", by John Kessel. In: Asimov's, September. Also in The Pure Product.
  • "Abdication Street", by Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne. In:  Interzone #105 (March). Also in Back in the USSA, Ziesing 1997.
  • "Resurrection", by Mark W. Tiedemann. In: War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (ed. Anderson)
1995

LONG FORM
Winner:
  • Pasquale's Angel, by Paul J. McAuley
Nominees:
  • The Two Georges, by Richard Dreyfuss & Harry Turtledove
  • The Bloody Red Baron, by Kim Newman

SHORT FORM
Winner:
  • "Brigantia's Angels", by Stephen Baxter. In:  Interzone, #91 (January)
Nominees:
  • "From Whom All Blessings Flow", by Stephen Dedman. In:  Asimov's, April. Also in Centaurus (eds. Hartwell and Broderick), Tor 1999.
  • "Brute Skill", by David Garnett.  In:  Interzone, #93 (March)
  • "Receding Horizon", by Jonathan Lethem & Carter Scholz. In: Crank! #5, Summer.
  • "The Lincoln Train", by Maureen McHugh. In: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April. Also in Year's Best SF, 13th Collection (ed. Dozois), St. Martin's 1996, and One Lamp (ed. Van Gelder), Four Walls Eight Windows 2003.
  • "Must and Shall", by Harry Turtledove. In Asimov's, November. Also in Nebula Awards 32 (ed. Dann), Harcourt Brace 1998.
  • "You Could Go Home Again", by Howard Waldrop. On Omni On-Line, June. Also in Going Home Again, St. Martin's 1998.
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