SF Signal: NOMINEES: Sidewise Awards

NOMINEES: Sidewise Awards

Finalists for The Sidewise Award, given to works of alternate history and named after Murray Leinster's 1934 story "Sidewise in Time", have been announced:

LONG FORM

Robert Conroy for 1862 (Presidio Press)
Paul Park for The Tourmaline (Tor Books)
Charles Stross for The Family Trade, The Hidden Family, and The Clan Corporate (Tor Books)
Harry Turtledove for The Disunited States of America (Tor Books)
Jo Walton for Farthing (Tor Books)

SHORT FORM

Stephen Baxter for "The Pacific Mystery" (The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction edited by Mike Ashley, Carroll & Graf)
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff for "O, Pioneer" Paradox 8
Gardner Dozois for "Counterfactual" (F&SF, June 2006)
Chris Floyd for "History Lesson" (Moscow Times, February 22, 2006)
Martin Gidron for "Palestina" (Interzone June 2006)
Brian Stableford for "The Plurality of Worlds," (Asimov's August 2006)
Andrew Tisbert for "The Meteor of the War" (Paradox 9)