Editing Sidewise Award for Alternate History

{{short description|Prize for alternative history novels}}
[[Image:Sidewiseplaque.jpg|thumb|175px|right|Sidewise Award for [[Murray Davies]]'s novel ''[[Collaborator (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 [[World Science Fiction Convention|WorldCon]] or at [[North American Science Fiction Convention| 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==

Note: The Sidewise Awards are announced as for the year of publication rather than by the year of award presentation.

===Long Form===
:[[1995 in literature|1995]] &ndash; [[Paul J. McAuley]], ''Pasquale's Angel''
:[[1996 in literature|1996]] &ndash; [[Stephen Baxter (author)|Stephen Baxter]], ''[[Voyage (novel)|Voyage]]''
:[[1997 in literature|1997]] &ndash; [[Harry Turtledove]], ''[[How Few Remain]]''
:[[1998 in literature|1998]] &ndash; [[Stephen Fry]], ''[[Making History (novel)|Making History]]''
:[[1999 in literature|1999]] &ndash; [[Brendan DuBois]], ''[[Resurrection Day (novel)|Resurrection Day]]''
:[[2000 in literature|2000]] &ndash; [[Mary Gentle]], ''[[Ash: A Secret History]]''
:[[2001 in literature|2001]] &ndash; J. N. Stroyar, ''[[The Children's War]]''
:[[2002 in literature|2002]] &ndash; ''(tie)'': Martin J. Gidron (name since changed to Martin Berman-Gorvine), ''The Severed Wing'' and [[Harry Turtledove]], ''[[Ruled Britannia]]''
:[[2003 in literature|2003]] &ndash; [[Murray Davies]], ''[[Collaborator (novel)|Collaborator]]''
:[[2004 in literature|2004]] &ndash; [[Philip Roth]], ''[[The Plot Against America]]''
:[[2005 in literature|2005]] &ndash; [[Ian R. MacLeod]], ''The Summer Isles'' 
:[[2006 in literature|2006]] &ndash; [[Charles Stross]], ''[[The Merchant Princes#The Family Trade|The Family Trade]]'', ''[[The Hidden Family]]'', and ''[[The Clan Corporate]]''
:[[2007 in literature|2007]] &ndash; [[Michael Chabon]], ''[[The Yiddish Policemen's Union]]''
:[[2008 in literature|2008]] &ndash; [[Chris Roberson (author)|Chris Roberson]], ''The Dragon's Nine Sons''<ref name="fss090809"/>
:[[2009 in literature|2009]] &ndash; [[Robert Conroy]], ''[[1942 (novel)|1942]]''<ref name="fss100807"/>
:[[2010 in literature|2010]] &ndash; [[Eric G. Swedin]], ''When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis''<ref name="fss110820"/>
:[[2011 in literature|2011]] &ndash; [[Ian R. MacLeod]], ''[[Wake Up and Dream (novel)|Wake Up and Dream]]''
:[[2012 in literature|2012]] &ndash; [[C. J. Sansom]], ''[[Dominion (Sansom novel)|Dominion]]''<ref name="fss130831sw"/>
:[[2013 in literature|2013]] &ndash; (tie) [[D. J. Taylor (writer)|D. J. Taylor]], ''The Windsor Faction'' and [[Bryce Zabel]], ''Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas?''
:[[2014 in literature|2014]] &ndash; [[Kristine Kathryn Rusch]], ''The Enemy Within''<ref name="loc150817"/>
:[[2015 in literature|2015]] &ndash; [[Julie Mayhew]], ''The Big Lie''
:[[2016 in literature|2016]] &ndash; [[Ben H. Winters]], ''[[Underground Airlines]]''
:[[2017 in literature|2017]] &ndash; [[Bryce Zabel]], ''[[Once There Was a Way]]''
:[[2018 in literature|2018]] &ndash; [[Mary Robinette Kowal]], ''[[The Calculating Stars]]''
:[[2019 in literature|2019]] &ndash; [[Annalee Newitz]], ''[[The Future of Another Timeline]]''
:[[2020 in literature|2020]] &ndash; [[Adrian Tchaikovsky]], ''The Doors of Eden''
:[[2021 in literature|2021]] &ndash; [[Laurent Binet]], ''[[Civilizations (novel)|Civilizations]]'' (translated by [[Sam Taylor (author)|Sam Taylor]])<ref name="sfe"/>
:[[2022 in literature|2022]] &ndash; B. L. Blanchard, ''The Peacekeeper''<ref name="locus202210">{{cite web|url=https://locusmag.com/2023/10/2022-sidewise-award-winners/|title=2022 Sidewise Award Winners|website=Locus|date=October 27, 2023}}</ref>
:[[2023 in literature|2023]] &ndash; [[Francis Spufford]], ''[[Cahokia Jazz]]''

===Short Form===
:[[1995 in literature|1995]] &ndash; [[Stephen Baxter (author)|Stephen Baxter]], "Brigantia's Angels"
:[[1996 in literature|1996]] &ndash; [[Walter Jon Williams]], "Foreign Devils" (in ''[[War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches]]'')
:[[1997 in literature|1997]] &ndash; [[William Sanders (writer)|William Sanders]], "[[The Undiscovered]]"
:[[1998 in literature|1998]] &ndash; [[Ian R. MacLeod]], ''The Summer Isles''
:[[1999 in literature|1999]] &ndash; [[Alain Bergeron]], "The Eighth Register" (translated by [[Howard Scott (translator)|Howard Scott]])
:[[2000 in literature|2000]] &ndash; [[Ted Chiang]], "[[Seventy-Two Letters]]"
:[[2001 in literature|2001]] &ndash; [[Ken MacLeod]], ''The Human Front''
:[[2002 in literature|2002]] &ndash; [[William Sanders (writer)|William Sanders]], "Empire"
:[[2003 in literature|2003]] &ndash; [[Chris Roberson (author)|Chris Roberson]], "O One"
:[[2004 in literature|2004]] &ndash; [[Warren Ellis]], ''[[Ministry of Space|The Ministry of Space]]''
:[[2005 in literature|2005]] &ndash; [[Lois Tilton]], "Pericles the Tyrant"
:[[2006 in literature|2006]] &ndash; [[Gardner Dozois]], "Counterfactual"
:[[2007 in literature|2007]] &ndash; ''(tie)'': [[Michael Flynn (author)|Michael Flynn]], "Quaestiones Super Caelo Et Mundo" & [[Kristine Kathryn Rusch]], "Recovering Apollo 8"
:[[2008 in literature|2008]] &ndash; [[Mary Rosenblum]], "Sacrifice"<ref name="fss090809"/>
:[[2009 in literature|2009]] &ndash; [[Alastair Reynolds]], "The Fixation"<ref name="fss100807"/>
:[[2010 in literature|2010]] &ndash; [[Alan Smale]], "A Clash of Eagles"<ref name="fss110820"/>
:[[2011 in literature|2011]] &ndash; [[Lisa Goldstein]], "Paradise Is a Walled Garden"
:[[2012 in literature|2012]] &ndash; [[Rick Wilber]], "Something Real"'<ref name="fss130831sw"/>
:[[2013 in literature|2013]] &ndash; [[Vylar Kaftan]], "[[The Weight of the Sunrise]]"
:[[2014 in literature|2014]] &ndash; [[Ken Liu]], "The Long Haul: From the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009"<ref name="loc150817"/>
:[[2015 in literature|2015]] &ndash; [[Bill Crider]], "It Doesn't Matter Anymore"
:[[2016 in literature|2016]] &ndash; ''(tie)'': [[Daniel M. Bensen]], "Treasure Fleet" & [[Adam Rovner]], "What If the Jewish State Had Been Established in East Africa"
:[[2017 in literature|2017]] &ndash; [[Harry Turtledove]], "[[Zigeuner (short story)|Zigeuner]]"
:[[2018 in literature|2018]] &ndash; [[Oscar (Xiu) Ramirez]] and [[Emmanuel Valtierra]], ''Codex Valtierra''
:[[2019 in literature|2019]] &ndash; [[Harry Turtledove]], "Christmas Truce"
:[[2020 in literature|2020]] &ndash; [[Matthew Kresal]], "Moonshot"
:[[2021 in literature|2021]] &ndash; [[Alan Smale]], "Gunpowder Treason"<ref name="sfe"/>
:[[2022 in literature|2022]] &ndash; ''(tie)'': Eric Choi, "A Sky and a Heaven" & [[Wole Talabi]] "A Dream of Electric Mothers"<ref name="locus202210" />
:[[2023 in literature|2023]] &ndash; Rosemary Claire Smith, "Apollo in Retrograde"

===Special Achievement===
:[[1995 in literature|1995]] &ndash; [[L. Sprague de Camp]], lifetime achievement
:[[1997 in literature|1997]] &ndash; [[Robert Sobel]], ''[[For Want of a Nail (novel)|For Want of a Nail]]''
:[[1999 in literature|1999]] &ndash; [[Randall Garrett]], the [[Lord Darcy (fiction)|Lord Darcy]] series
:[[2018 in literature|2018]] &ndash; [[Eric Flint]], for support of writers in the alternate history genre, most notably via the [[1632 series]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.uchronia.net/sidewise/ The Sidewise Award website]

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