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Sidewise Awards Winners

The Sidewise Awards have been presented annually since 1995 to recognize excellence in alternate historical fiction. In an alternate history, one or more past events are changed and the subsequent effects on history somehow described. This description may comprise the entire plotline of a novel, or it may just provide a brief background to a short story. Two awards are presented, usually at the World Science Fiction Convention. The Short-Form award is presented to a work under 60,000 words in length. The Long-Form award may be presented to a work longer than 60,000 words, including both novels and complete series. At their discretion, the judges may also elect to recognize an individual or work with a Special Achievement Award in recognition of works that were published prior to the award's inception. Please note: The Sideways Awards are dated according to the year of publication, not the year of the award. For example, the 2018 Awards were announced in August 2019 for works published in 2018. Listed below are nominees which are available at the Chicago library. For a complete list of long and short form nominees (as well as a substantial list of fiction in this genre generally), go to https://www.uchronia.net/sidewise/.

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  • WINNER, 2024 Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Book, 2024New York : DAW Books, [2024]
  • 2024 Nominee, Part 1 of The Pandominion Duology, nominee for Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Paperback, 2023New York, NY : Orbit, 2023.
  • 2024 Nominee, Part 2 of The Pandominion Duology, nominee for Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Paperback, 2024New York, NY : Orbit, 2024.
  • 2024 Nominee, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Book, 2024New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2024.
  • 2023 WINER, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Book, 2024New York : Scribner, 2024.
  • 2023 Nominee, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Book, 2023New York : Mariner Books, 2023.
  • 2023 Nominee, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Book, 2023New York ; Boston : Grand Central, 2023
  • 2023 Nominee, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Book, 2023Rockville, Maryland : Caezik SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor LLC, 2023.
  • 2022 WINNER, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Paperback, 2022Seattle : 47North, [2022]
  • 2022 Nominee, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Book, 2022New York : Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2022.
  • Babel

    Or, the Necessity of Violence : An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

    Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),
    2022 Nominee, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Paperback, 2022New York, NY : Harper Voyager, [2022]
  • 2022 Nominee, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Paperback, 2022Chico, CA : AK Press, 2022.
  • 2021 WINNER, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Book, 2021New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
  • 2021 Nominee, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
  • 2021 Nominee, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Book, 2021New York : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
  • 2020 WINNER, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Paperback, 2020New York, NY : Orbit, 2020.
  • 2020 nominee, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Book, 2018Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, [2018]
  • 2019 nominee, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History
    Book, 2019Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2019.