Whose side are you on? The sidewise awards come to town
01/07/2001 . Source: Jessica Martin 

Those canny judges for the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History have just announced the finalists for the Y2K Sidewise Awards.

Said awards will be presented at Millennium Philcon, the 59th World Science Fiction Convention, due to be held from August 30th to September 3rd.

The Sidewise Awards were founded in 1995 to dish out gongs for the best fiction in the alternate history 'what if' market, and are named for Murray Leinster's short story "Sidewise in Time."

We understand that nominations are also now being accepted for the 2001 Sidewise Awards.

The novels category sees the following nominees ...

1. author: Suzanne Allés Blom
book: Inca (Tor/Forge)

2. author: Mary Gentle
book: Ash: A Secret History, (published in US as A Secret History, Carthage Ascendant, The Wild Machines, and Lost Burgundy) (Victor Gollancz ; Avon/Eos)

3. author: S.M. Stirling
book: The Nantucket Trilogy, Island in the Sea of Time, Against the Tide of Years, On the Oceans of Eternity, (NAL/Roc)

The short stories category sees the following entrants ...

1. author: Eugene Byrne
short story: "HMS Habakkuk," Interzone 155

2. author: Ted Chiang
short story: "Seventy-Two Letters," Vanishing Acts, edited by Ellen Datlow, Tor.

3. author: Paul J. McAuley
short story: "A Very British History," Interzone 157

4. author: Kim Newman
short story: "The Other Side of Midnight: Anno Dracula 1981," The Vampire Sextette, edited by Marvin Kaye, Science Fiction Book Club ·

5. author: Carla Pereira
short story: "Xochiquetzal," Altair 6/7, translated by David Alan Prescott. Originally appeared as "Xochiquetzal e a Esquandra da Vingança," in Pecar a Sete, edited by António de Macedo and Silvana de Menezes, Simetria 1999.

For more details of these puppies, cruise on over to

http://www.uchronia.net/sidewise/