Sidewise Award for Alternate History

The **Sidewise Awards for Alternate History** were established in 1995. These awards are for the best alternate history stories and novels of the year.

The awards are named after the 1934 short story "Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster. In the story, a strange storm makes parts of the Earth exchange places with similar places from other timelines.

Steven H Silver, Evelyn C. Leeper, and Robert B. Schmunk created the award. The number of judges has changed in different years. There have been three to eight judges, including judges in the UK and South Africa.

There are two Sideways awards. The Short-Form award is for writing that is shorter than 60,000 words. The Long-Form award may be for writing that is longer than 60,000 words. This can include a novel or a complete series of novels. The judges may also give a Special Achievement Award, but this is not required every year. Special Achievement awards are for writing that was published befor1995. The awards are given each year, usually at Worldcon.

### 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, _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_
- 2009 Robert Conroy, _1942_
- 2010 Eric G. Swedin, _When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis_
- 2011 Ian R. MacLeod, _Wake Up and Dream_
- 2012 C. J. Sansom, _Dominion_
- 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_
- 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_

### 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_
- 2009 Alastair Reynolds, _The Fixation_
- 2010 Alan Smale, _A Clash of Eagles_
- 2011 Lisa Goldstein, _Paradise Is a Walled Garden_
- 2012 Rick Wilber, _Something Real_
- 2013 Vylar Kaftan, _The Weight of the Sunrise_
- 2014 Ken Liu, _The Long Haul: From the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009_
- 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_

### Special Achievement

- 1995 L. Sprague de Camp, lifetime achievement
- 1997 Robert N. Sobel, _For Want of a Nail_
- 1999 Randall Garrett, the _Lord Darcy_ series
- 2018 Eric Flint, the _1632_ series

## Other websites

- The Sidewise Award website.