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Sidewise Awards for Alternate History

Presented by: Panel of judges

For: Alternative history

Winner A Brother's Oath L. Briar
Nominee Apart from That Mrs. Lincoln Elektra Hammond
Nominee Les Mariannes Mark Ciccone

Winner Sargassa Sophie Burnham
Nominee The Last Rival: A Time of Our Choosing Kyle Palmer
Nominee Infinity Gate Mike Carey
Nominee Westfallen Ann Brashares+Ben Brashares
Nominee Echo of Worlds Mike Carey

Winner Apollo in Retrograde Rosemary Claire Smith
Nominee Toe-to-Toe Mark Ciccone

Winner Cahokia Jazz Francis Spufford
Nominee The Wages of Sin Harry Turtledove
Nominee Julia Sandra Newman
Nominee Sunset Empire Josh Weiss

Winner The Peacekeeper B. L. Blanchard
Nominee Begin the World Over Kung Li Sun
Nominee Appliance J. O. Morgan
Nominee Beat the Devils Josh Weiss
Nominee Babel, or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution R. F. Kuang
Nominee Three Miles Down Harry Turtledove

Winner A Sky and a Heaven Eric Choi
Winner A Dream of Electric Mothers Wole Talabi
Nominee It's Real Life Paul Levinson
Nominee Kingsbury 1944 Michael Cassutt

Winner Civilizations Laurent Binet
Nominee Broadway Revival Laura Frankos
Nominee The Apollo Murders Chris Hadfield
Nominee The Kingdoms Natasha Pulley

Winner Gunpowder Treason Alan Smale
Nominee Hitchcock's Titanic Matthew Kresal
Nominee Billie the Kid Rick Wilber

Winner The Doors of Eden Adrian Tchaikovsky
Nominee The Day Lincoln Lost Charles Rosenberg
Nominee The Relentless Moon Mary Robinette Kowal
Nominee The Cold Last Swim Junior Burke
Nominee The Good German Dennis Bock

Winner Moonshot Matthew Kresal
Nominee Wheel of Echoes Sean McMullen
Nominee 1827: Napoleon in Australia Andrew J. Harvey

Winner Christmas Truce Harry Turtledove
Nominee The Blue and the Red: Palmerston's Ironclads William Stroock
Nominee The Kaiserin of the Seas Christopher G. Nuttall
Nominee Drang nach Osten (Drive to the East) Christopher G. Nuttall
Nominee Any Way the Wind Blows Seanan McGuire

Winner untitled Eric Flint

Winner Codex Valtierra Oscar (Xiu) Ramirez+Emmanuel Valtierra
Nominee The Secret City Rick Wilber

Winner The Calculating Stars Mary Robinette Kowal
Nominee The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington Charles Rosenberg
Nominee Summerland Hannu Rajaniemi
Nominee Unholy Land Lavie Tidhar

Winner Once There Was a Way Bryce Zabel
Nominee The Berlin Project Gregory Benford
Nominee All Our Wrong Todays Elan Mastai
Nominee Clash of Eagles Alan Smale
Nominee Eagle in Exile Alan Smale
Nominee Eagle and Empire Alan Smale
Nominee A Time of Need Brent A. Harris

Winner Zigeuner Harry Turtledove
Nominee Sun River Nisi Shawl
Nominee The Twenty Year Reich Dave D'Alessio
Nominee N'oublions Jamais Tom Anderson+Bruno Lombardi

Winner Underground Airlines Ben H. Winters
Nominee Azanian Bridges Nick Wood
Nominee Acts of the Assassins Richard Beard

Winner Treasure Fleet Daniel Bensen
Winner What If the Jewish State Had Been Established in East Africa? Adam Rovner
Nominee Pirate Utopia Bruce Sterling
Nominee The Battle of London Bridge G. K. Holloway
Nominee The Danish Crutch Anna Belfrage
Nominee Twilight of the Mesozoic Moon Brent A. Harris+Ricardo Victoria

Winner The Big Lie Julie Mayhew
Nominee The British Lion Tony Schumacher
Nominee Joe Steele Harry Turtledove

Winner It Doesn't Matter Anymore Bill Crider
Nominee Red Legacy Eneasz Brodski
Nominee Elizabethtown Eric Cline
Nominee Losing Amelia Rev DiCerto
Nominee The Last of Time Ken Poyner
Nominee The Hero of Deadwood James Reasoner

Winner The Enemy Within Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Nominee Second Front: The Allied Invasion of France Alexander M. Grace, Sr.
Nominee The Darkest Hour Tony Schumacher
Nominee V-S Day Allen Steele
Nominee My Real Children Jo Walton

Winner The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 Ken Liu
Nominee The Girl with the Flaxen Hair Igor Ljubuncic
Nominee The Principles Robert Reed
Nominee Let No Man Put Asunder Aaron Rosenberg
Nominee The Black Sun Lewis Shiner
Nominee The More it Changes Harry Turtledove

Winner Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas? Bryce Zabel
Winner The Windsor Faction D. J. Taylor
Nominee 1920: America's Great War Robert Conroy
Nominee The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi Mark Hodder

Winner The Weight of the Sunrise Vylar Kaftan
Nominee Blair's War Ian Watson
Nominee A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel Ken Liu
Nominee Cayos in the Stream Harry Turtledove
Nominee Tollund Adam Roberts
Nominee Uncertainty Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Winner Dominion C. J. Sansom
Nominee The Cassandra Project Jack McDevitt+Mike Resnick
Nominee Doktor Glass Thomas Brennan
Nominee Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon Mark Hodder
Nominee The Mirage Matt Ruff

Winner Something Real Rick Wilber
Nominee Adrift on the Sea of Rains Ian Sales
Nominee Fade to White Catherynne M. Valente
Nominee Great White Ship Lou Antonelli
Nominee Steamgothic Sean McMullen

Winner Wake Up and Dream Ian R. MacLeod
Nominee Castro's Bomb Robert Conroy
Nominee Himmler's War Robert Conroy
Nominee Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan Jeff Greenfield
Nominee Planesrunner Ian McDonald
Nominee Heart of Iron Ekaterina Sedia
Nominee Camera Obscura Lavie Tidhar

Winner Paradise Is a Walled Garden Lisa Goldstein
Nominee The Iron Shirts Michael F. Flynn
Nominee Orion Rising Jason Stoddard
Nominee Lee at the Alamo Harry Turtledove

Winner When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis Eric G. Swedin
Nominee Columbia & Britannia Brian A. Dixon+Adam Chamberlain
Nominee Red Inferno 1945 Robert Conroy
Nominee Pinion Jay Lake

Winner A Clash of Eagles Alan Smale
Nominee Mammoths of the Great Plains Eleanor Arnason
Nominee Alten Kameraden Barry B. Longyear
Nominee Sidewinders Ken MacLeod
Nominee Goin' Down to Anglotown William F. Wu

Winner 1942 Robert Conroy

Winner The Fixation Alastair Reynolds
Nominee Yes We Have No Bananas Paul Di Filippo
Nominee Edison's Frankenstein Chris Roberson
Nominee Black Swan Bruce Sterling
Nominee The Persistence of Souls Sarah Zettel

Winner The Dragon's Nine Sons Chris Roberson
Nominee The Affinity Bridge George Mann
Nominee Swiftly Adam Roberts
Nominee Half a Crown Jo Walton
Nominee Nation Terry Pratchett

Winner Sacrifice Mary Rosenblum
Nominee The People's Machine Tobias S. Buckell
Nominee Poison Victory Albert E. Cowdrey
Nominee A Brief Guide to Other Histories Paul J. McAuley
Nominee Night Bird Soaring T. L. Morganfield
Nominee G-Men Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Winner The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon
Nominee 1945 Robert Conroy
Nominee Mainspring Jay Lake
Nominee Rome Burning Sophia McDougall
Nominee Ha'penny Jo Walton
Nominee Ilario: The Lion's Eye Mary Gentle

Winner Recovering Apollo 8 Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Winner Quaestiones Super Caelo et Mundo Michael F. Flynn
Nominee Public Safety Matthew Johnson
Nominee Metal Dragon Year Chris Roberson
Nominee Missives from Possible Futures #1: Alternate History Search Results John Scalzi
Nominee An Alternate History of Chinese Science Fiction Jess Nevins
Nominee "Les Innocents/Lumiere" (A Chapter in Fix-up Novel New Amsterdam) Elizabeth Bear

Winner Counterfactual Gardner Dozois
Nominee The Pacific Mystery Stephen Baxter
Nominee Palestina Martin J. Gidron
Nominee The Plurality of Worlds Brian Stableford
Nominee O, Pioneer Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
Nominee The Meteor of the War Andrew Tisbert
Nominee History Lesson Chris Floyd

Winner Merchant Princes (Title Series) Charles Stross
Nominee Farthing Jo Walton
Nominee The Disunited States of America Harry Turtledove
Nominee The Tourmaline Paul Park
Nominee 1862 Robert Conroy

Winner The Summer Isles Ian R. MacLeod
Nominee A Princess of Roumania Paul Park
Nominee Romanitas Sophia McDougall

Winner Pericles the Tyrant Lois Tilton
Nominee Panacea Jason Stoddard
Nominee Harvest Moon William Barton
Nominee A Key to the Illuminated Heretic A. M. Dellamonica
Nominee The 2005 Hugo Award Ceremony Script Kim Newman+Paul McAuley

Winner Ministry of Space (Comic Book) Warren Ellis+Chris Weston+Laura DuPuy Martin
Nominee The Héloïse Archive L. Timmel Duchamp
Nominee The Ashbazu Effect John G. McDaid
Nominee The Gladiator's War: A Dialog Lois Tilton
Nominee Red Hands, Black Hands Chris Roberson
Nominee Five Guys Named Moe Sean Klein

Winner The Plot Against America Philip Roth

Winner O One Chris Roberson
Nominee The Day We Went Through the Transition Ricard de la Casa+Pedro Jorge Romero
Nominee The Eyes of America Geoffrey A. Landis
Nominee The Reign of Terror Robert Silverberg
Nominee The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust Robert L. O'Connell

Winner Collaborator Murray Davies
Nominee Conquistador S. M. Stirling
Nominee A Disturbance of Fate Mitchell J. Freedman
Nominee Liverpool Fantasy Larry Kirwan

Winner The Severed Wing Martin J. Gidron
Winner Ruled Britannia Harry Turtledove
Nominee The Year of the Hangman Gary L. Blackwood
Nominee The Separation Christopher Priest
Nominee The Peshawar Lancers S. M. Stirling

Winner Empire William Sanders
Nominee We Come Not to Praise Washington Charles Coleman Finlay
Nominee The Invisible Empire John Kessel
Nominee With Caesar in the Underworld Robert Silverberg
Nominee The Last Ride of German Freddie Walter Jon Williams

Winner The Children's War J. N. Stroyar
Nominee Series "The Age of Unreason" (Newton's Cannon, A Calculus of Angels, Empire of Unreason, The Shadows of God) J. Gregory Keyes
Nominee ChronoSpace Allen Steele

Winner The Human Front Ken MacLeod
Nominee First to the Moon! Stephen Baxter+Simon Bradshaw

Winner Ash: A Secret History Mary Gentle
Nominee Inca: The Scarlet Fringe Suzanne Allés Blom
Nominee The Nantucket Trilogy (Island in the Sea of Time, Against the Tide of Years & On the Oceans of Eternity) S. M. Stirling
Nominee Crimson Skies, Wings of Justice: Book I, Rogue Flyer Loren Coleman
Nominee Prince of Hearts Katy Cooper
Nominee 1632 Eric Flint
Nominee Fortune's Stroke Eric Flint+David Drake
Nominee Carthage Ascendant: The Book of Ash, #2 Mary Gentle
Nominee Lost Burgundy: The Book of Ash, #4 Mary Gentle
Nominee The Wild Machines: The Book of Ash, #3 Mary Gentle
Nominee The Gate of Fire Thomas Harlan
Nominee Stars and Stripes in Peril Harry Harrison
Nominee Empire of Unreason J. Gregory Keyes
Nominee Fox on the Rhine Douglas Niles+Michael Dobson
Nominee The Napoleon Options Jonathan North
Nominee The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman
Nominee Naked Presidents James Silver
Nominee Custer's Luck Robert Skimin+William E. Moody
Nominee On the Oceans of Eternity S. M. Stirling
Nominee Colonization: Down to Earth Harry Turtledove
Nominee The Great War: Breakthroughs Harry Turtledove
Nominee Downs-Lord Day John Whitbourn

Winner Seventy-Two Letters Ted Chiang
Nominee HMS Habakkuk Eugene Byrne
Nominee A Very British History Paul J. McAuley
Nominee The Other Side of Midnight: Anno Dracula 1981 Kim Newman
Nominee Xochiquetzal^Xochiquetzal e a Esquandra da Vingança Carla Cristina Pereira
Nominee Bloody Bunnies Bradley Denton
Nominee What If Al Gore Had Won in Florida? Will Feltus+Laura Ingraham
Nominee Watching Trees Grow Peter F. Hamilton
Nominee A Place to Stand William H. Keith, Jr.
Nominee Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977 Kim Newman
Nominee A Colder War Charles Stross
Nominee Loose Upon the Earth a Daemon Tim Waggoner

Winner Resurrection Day Brendan DuBois
Nominee Only One Shortlisted Novel (********)

Winner The Eighth Register^le Huithème registre Alain Bergeron
Nominee The Secret History of the Ornithopter Jan Lars Jensen
Nominee Getting to Know the Dragon Robert Silverberg
Nominee A Hero of the Empire Robert Silverberg

Winner For the Lord Darcy Stories Randall Garrett

Winner Making History Stephen Fry
Nominee Dinosaur Summer Greg Bear
Nominee Climb the Wind Pamela Sargent

Winner The Summer Isles Ian R. MacLeod
Nominee The Wire Continuum Stephen Baxter+Arthur C. Clarke
Nominee Waiting for the End Robert Silverberg
Nominee US Howard Waldrop

Winner How Few Remain Harry Turtledove
Nominee Time on My Hands: A Novel with Photographs Peter Delacorte
Nominee Jack Faust Michael Swanwick

Winner The Undiscovered William Sanders
Nominee For the Strength of the Hills Lee Allred
Nominee The King of Poland's Foot Cavalry Roland J. Green
Nominee Teddy Bears' Picnic Kim Newman+Eugene Byrne

Winner Voyage Stephen Baxter
Nominee Two Crowns for America David Drake
Nominee Shade and Shadow Francine G. Woodbury
Nominee Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus Orson Scott Card
Nominee The Hammer and the Cross Trilogy (The Hammer and the Cross, One King's Way, King and Emperor) Harry Harrison+John Holm
Nominee Worldwar series (In the Balance, Tilting the Balance, Upsetting the Balance, Striking the Balance) Harry Turtledove
Nominee Milton in America Peter Ackroyd
Nominee Cold Shoulder Road Joan Aiken
Nominee Too Many Notes, Mr. Mozart Robert Barnard
Nominee The Transmigration of Souls William Barton
Nominee Water! (O Greenest Branch!, The Dove Looked In, Branch and Crown) Gaèl Baudino
Nominee Branch Point Mona Clee
Nominee Music, in a Foreign Language Andrew Crumey
Nominee ARC Riders: The Fourth Rome David Drake+Janet Morris
Nominee Child of the Eagle: A Myth of Rome Esther M. Friesner^Esther Friesner
Nominee Making History Stephen Fry
Nominee Celestial Matters Richard Garfinkle
Nominee Wildside Steven Gould
Nominee '48 James Herbert
Nominee A Land Fit for Heroes (Escape to the Wild Wood, Stand Alone Stan, The Dragon Wakes, The Burning Forest) Phillip Mann
Nominee Shatterhand Jake Page
Nominee The Tranquillity Alternative Allen Steele
Nominee Drakon S. M. Stirling
Nominee Devil's Tower Mark Sumner
Nominee This Is My Blood David Niall Wilson

Winner Foreign Devils Walter Jon Williams
Nominee Columbiad Stephen Baxter
Nominee To Bring the Light David Drake
Nominee Flatfeet! Howard Waldrop
Nominee Bloody Knife & Morning Star David Niall Wilson
Nominee The Death-Sweet Scent of Lilies David Niall Wilson
Nominee Age of Aquarius William Barton
Nominee The Miracle of Ivar Avenue John Kessel
Nominee Abdication Street Kim Newman+Eugene Byrne
Nominee Resurrection Mark W. Tiedemann
Nominee Canals in the Sand Kevin J. Anderson
Nominee The Politics of Pneumatic Times Erik T. Baker
Nominee Prospero One Stephen Baxter+Simon Bradshaw
Nominee To See the World End M. Shayne Bell
Nominee Ezcalli Kenneth Hite+Craig Neumeier+Michael Schiffer
Nominee Gernsback Kenneth Hite+Craig Neumeier+Michael Schiffer
Nominee Shikaku-mon Kenneth Hite+Craig Neumeier+Michael Schiffer
Nominee Flashed Shadows Morgan Hua
Nominee The Spear of the Sun David Langford
Nominee Letters in the Wall Barry N. Malzberg+Batya Swift
Nominee Spelunking at the Cavern Michael A. Martin
Nominee The Temptation of Dr. Stein Paul J. McAuley
Nominee Nixon in Space Rob McCleary
Nominee Citizen Ed Kim Newman+Eugene Byrne
Nominee Symphony in a Minor Key H. G. Stratmann

Winner Pasquale's Angel Paul J. McAuley
Nominee The Two Georges Richard Dreyfuss+Harry Turtledove
Nominee The Bloody Red Baron Kim Newman

Winner Brigantia's Angels Stephen Baxter
Nominee From Whom All Blessings Flow Stephen Dedman
Nominee Brute Skill David Garnett
Nominee Receding Horizon Jonathan Lethem+Carter Scholz
Nominee The Lincoln Train Maureen F. McHugh
Nominee Must and Shall Harry Turtledove
Nominee You *Could* Go Home Again Howard Waldrop

Winner untitled L. Sprague de Camp