Awards & Winners

Sidewise Award for Best Short-Form Alternate History

Sidewise Award for Alternate History

Check all the winners of Sidewise Award for Best Short-Form Alternate History presented under Sidewise Award for Alternate History since 1995 .


Mary Rosenblum

Honored for : Sacrifice

Michael F. Flynn

Honored for : Quaestiones Super Caelo Et Mundo

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Elizabeth Bear Les Innocents/Lumiere
Matthew Johnson Public Safety
Jess Nevins An Alternate History of Chinese Science Fiction
Chris Roberson Metal Dragon Year
John Scalzi Missives from Possible Futures #1: Alternate History Search Results
Michael F. Flynn Quaestiones Super Caelo Et Mundo
Kristine Kathryn Rusch Recovering Apollo 8

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Honored for : Recovering Apollo 8

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Elizabeth Bear Les Innocents/Lumiere
Matthew Johnson Public Safety
Jess Nevins An Alternate History of Chinese Science Fiction
Chris Roberson Metal Dragon Year
John Scalzi Missives from Possible Futures #1: Alternate History Search Results
Michael F. Flynn Quaestiones Super Caelo Et Mundo
Kristine Kathryn Rusch Recovering Apollo 8

Gardner Dozois

Honored for : Counterfactual

Nominations 2006 »

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

Lois Tilton

Honored for : Pericles the Tyrant

Nominations 2005 »

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

Warren Ellis

Honored for : Ministry Of Space

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
L. Timmel Duchamp The Heloise Archive
Sean Klein Five Guys Named Moe
John McDaid The Ashbazu Effect
Chris Roberson Red Hands, Black Hands
Lois Tilton The Gladiator's War: A Dialogue
Warren Ellis Ministry Of Space

Chris Roberson

Honored for : O One

Nominations 2003 »

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

William Sanders

Honored for : Empire

Nominations 2002 »

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

Ken MacLeod

Honored for : The Human Front

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Stephen Baxter First to the Moon
Simon Bradshaw First to the Moon
Ken MacLeod The Human Front

Ted Chiang

Honored for : Seventy-two Letters

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Eugene Byrne HMS Habakkuk
Paul J. McAuley A Very British History
Kim Newman The Other Side of Midnight: Anno Dracula 1981
Carla Cristina Pereira Xochiquetzal
Ted Chiang Seventy-two Letters

Alain Bergeron

Honored for : The Eighth Register

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jan Lars Jensen The Secret History of the Ornithopter
Robert Silverberg Getting to Know the Dragon
Robert Silverberg A Hero of the Empire
Alain Bergeron The Eighth Register

Ian R. MacLeod

Honored for : The Summer Isles

Nominations 1998 »

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

William Sanders

Honored for : The Undiscovered

Nominations 1997 »

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

Walter Jon Williams

Honored for : Foreign Devils
(a story included in anthology: War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches)

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee Nominated Work
William Barton Age of Aquarius
John Kessel The Miracle of Ivar Avenue
Kim Newman Abdication Street
Mark W. Tiedemann Resurrection
Eugene Byrne Abdication Street
Walter Jon Williams Foreign Devils

Stephen Baxter

Honored for : Brigantia's Angels

Nominations 1995 »

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