2014 Sidewise Awards

The winners of the 2014 Sidewise Award for Alternate History have been announced. The award recognizes excellence in alternate historical fiction.

The winners were selected by a panel of judges comprised of Stephen Baxter, Evelyn Leeper, Jim Rittenhouse, Kurt Sidaway, and Steven H Silver.

Short Form

  • Ken Liu, “The Long Haul: From the Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009” (Clarkesworld Magazine, 11/14)

Long Form

  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch, The Enemy Within (WMG Publishing)

Kristine Kathryn Rusch previously won the Sidewise Award for her story “Recovering Apollo 8” in 2007. She has won two Hugo Awards and a World Fantasy Award. Rusch was one of the founders and editors of Pulphouse Publishing and spent six years as the editor of The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Ken Liu has won two Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and a World Fantasy Award. This is his second nomination for the Sidewise Award. His first novel, Grace of Kings was published in 2015. Liu has been working to translate science fiction by Chinese authors into English, including Cixin Liu’s The Three Body Problem.

The Sidewise Awards have been presented annually since 1995 to recognize excellence in alternate historical fiction. The award takes its name from Murray Leinster’s 1934 short story “Sidewise in Time,” in which a strange storm causes portions of Earth to swap places with their analogs from other timelines.

7 thoughts on “2014 Sidewise Awards

  1. I remain astounded by ALL the awards that I never heard of before–Mike, your work in reporting on the awards is fantastic–what a valuable service (and how ridiculous the context is against the Puppy claims–they really should have founded their own awards).

  2. … not to be confused with The Enemy Within by L. Ron Hubbard (Bridge Publications, 1986), volume 3 of “Mission Earth”.
    Which my library system owns in two different paper editions and a digital edition, but not the Rusch.
    I wish authors would be a little more creative in coming up with titles: even when I limit myself to physical books in English, I get 32 hits on “Enemy Within” in the library catalogue.

  3. I wish authors would be a little more creative in coming up with titles: even when I limit myself to physical books in English, I get 32 hits on “Enemy Within” in the library catalogue.

    Considering the plot, The Enemy Within was close to a perfect title for Rusch’s book.

    Why should she limit herself because of a hack work written thirty years ago?

  4. I was thinking the same thing and add my thanks to Mike G.for making sure we know about these awards and works!

  5. The title puts me in mind of one of my favorite submarine movie, with Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens, The Enemy Below. Also has Theodore Bikel and David Hedison, long before they heard the sound of music (on Broadway) or went to the bottom of the sea in someone elses sub.

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