The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History

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The judges for the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History are pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 Sidewise Awards. The presentation of the awards was made August 18, 2011, in Reno, Nevada, at Renovation, the 69th Annual World Science Fiction Convention.

Winner for 2010 Best
Short-Form Alternate History

Alan Smale. "A Clash of Eagles"
In Panverse Two (ed. Dario Ciriello),
Panverse Publishing 2010.

Other Finalists for 2010 Best
Short-Form Alternate History

Eleanor Arnason. Mammoths of the Great Plains
PM Press 2010.

Barry B. Longyear. "Alten Kameraden"
In Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2010.

Ken MacLeod. "Sidewinders"
In The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories (eds. Ian Watson and Ian Whates), Robinson Publishing and Running Press 2010.

William F. Wu. "Goin' Down to Anglotown"
In The Dragon and the Stars (eds. Derwin Mak and Eric Choi), DAW Books 2010.

Winner for 2010 Best
Long-Form Alternate History

Eric Swedin. When Angels Wept:
A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Potomac Books 2010.

Other Finalists for 2010 Best
Long-Form Alternate History

Adam Chamberlain and Brian A. Dixon.
Columbia & Britannia

Fourth Horseman Press 2010.

Robert Conroy. Red Inferno: 1945
Ballantine Books 2010.

Jay Lake. Pinion
Tor Books 2010. Also Tor Books 2011.

The Sidewise judges are currently reading for the 2011 awards, which will be presented Labor Day weekend 2012 in Chicago, Illinois, at Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention.

Please address all inquiries and correspondence to the awards secretary, Steven Silver.