The nominees for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History (for works published in 2011) have been announced.

Short Form

• Michael F. Flynn, “The Iron Shirts” (Tor.com)
• Lisa Goldstein, “Paradise Is a Walled Garden” (Asimov’s, 8/11)
• Jason Stoddard, “Orion Rising” (Panverse 3, edited by Dario Ciriello,
  Panverse Publishing)
• Harry Turtledove, “Lee at the Alamo” (Tor.com)

Long Form

• Robert Conroy, Castro’s Bomb (Kindle)
• Robert Conroy, Himmler’s War (Baen Books)
• Jeff Greenfield, Then Everything Changed (Putnam)
• Ian R MacLeod, Wake Up and Dream (PS Publishing)
• Ian McDonald, Planesrunner (Pyr)
• Ekaterina Sedia, Heart of Iron (Prime)
• Lavie Tidhar, Camera Obscura (Angry Robot)

This year’s panel of judges was Stephen Baxter, Evelyn Leeper, Jim Rittenhouse, Stu Shiffman, Kurt Sidaway and Steven H Silver. The winners will be announced at Chicon 7.