Chicon 2000: Sidewise Awards
Chicon 2000
Sidewise Awards
Rev. 21-Aug-2000
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Steven H Silver, sidewise@chicon.org
See also:
* Sidewise Awards for Alternate History
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Other Worldly Awards, Fairmont Hotel - Crystal Room, Third Floor.
Saturday, 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were conceived in late 1995
to honor the best "genre" publications of the year, and the first
awards were announced in summer 1996. The award take sit 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.
Two awards are given each year. To be considered, a work must have
either first English-language publication or first American
publication in the calendar year prior to the year in which the award
is to be presented. In other words, awards announced in 1997 honored
works published in 1996 and were called the "1996 Sidewise Awards."
The Short-Form Award is presented for the best work of less than
60,000 words. This includes short stories, novelettes and novellas,
and poems. The Long-Form Award is presented for the best work longer
than 60,000 words. This category individual novels and longer works.
If a book is part of a series, it must be able to stand on its own to
be considered. If it is part of a serial novel - a series in which the
storyline in continuous and no volume can stand on its own - the
complete serial novel will be considered at such time as the final
volume is published.
In addition, at the discretion of the judges, a Special Achievement
Award may be presented to honor a specific work or for a significant
body of work which was published prior to the inception of the award,
i.e., before 1995.
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The judges for the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History are pleased
to announce the finalists for the 1999 Sidewise Awards.
Nominee for Best Long-Form Alternate History
* Brendan DuBois, Resurrection Day, Putnam's 1999
Nominees for Best Short-Form Alternate History
* Alain Bergeron, "The Eighth Register," translated from the French
by Howard Scott.
First American publication in Northern Suns (eds. David G.
Hartwell and Glenn Grant), Tor 1999. First English-language
publication in TesseractsQ (eds. Élisabeth Vonarburg and Jane
Brierley), Tesseract 1996. Original French publication as "Le
huitième registre", in Solaris #107 (Autumn 1993).
* Jan Lars Jensen, "Secret History of the Ornithopter," in The
Magazine of Fantazy & Science Fiction, June 1999.
* Robert Silverberg, "Getting to Know the Dragon," in Far Horizons
(ed. Silverberg), Avon/Eos 1999.
* Robert Silverberg, "A Hero of the Empire," in The Magazine of
Fantazy & Science Fiction, October/November 1999.
Award for Special Achievement
* Randall Garrett, for the Lord Darcy stories, including the
collection Murder and Magic, the novel Too Many Magicians, the
collection Lord Darcy Investigates, and "The Spell of War."
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Nominations for the 2000 Sidewise Awards, for stories and novels
published during 2000, are open until 31-Mar-2001. See Sidewise Awards
for Alternate History for more
information.
Judges: Moshe Feder, Evelyn Leeper, Jim Rittenhouse, Robert Schmunk,
Stuart Shiffman, Steven Silver.
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