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The award takes its name from the 1934 short story "Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster, in which a strange storm causes portions of Earth to swap places with their analogs from other timelines.

Each year, two awards are presented at Worldcon. The Short Form award is presented to a work under 60,000 words in length. The Long Form award may be presented to a work longer than 60,000 words, including both novels or complete series.

At their discretion, the Sidewise Award judges (a panel of seven) may elect to recognize an individual or work with a Special Achievement Award. The Special Achievement Awards recognize works that were published prior to the award's inception.

Award Winners: Long Form:

2003 Murray Davies , Collaborator

2002 (tie) Martin J. Gidron , The Severed Wing & Harry Turtledove, Ruled Britannia

2001 J.N. Stroyar , The Children's War

2000 Mary Gentle, Ash: A Secret History

1999 Brendan DuBois , Resurrection Day

1998 Stephen Fry, Making History

1997 Harry Turtledove, How Few Remain

1996 Stephen Baxter, Voyage

1995 Paul McAuley, Pasquale's Angel

Short Form:

2003 Chris Roberson , "O One"

2002 William Sanders, "Empire"

2001 Ken MacLeod, "The Human Front"

2000 Ted ChiangTed Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. He was born in Port Jefferson, NY and graduated from Brown University. He has won Nebulas for his short stories "Story of Your Life" (1999) and "Tower of Babylon" (1990), and both a Nebula and, "Seventy-two Letters"

1999 Alain Bergeron , "The Eighth Register" (translated by Howard Scott )

1998 Ian R. MacLeodMacLeod (1956-) was born in Solihull, United Kingdom. He is a writer who focuses mainly on the science fiction and fantasy genres. MacLeod, Ian R. MacLeod, Ian R. MacLeod, Ian R. MacLeod, Ian R., "The Summer Isles"

1997 William Sanders, "The Undiscovered"

1996 Walter Jon WilliamsWalter Jon Williams ( October 15, 1953 ) is an American writer, primarily of science fiction. Many of his novels have a distinct cyberpunk feel to them, notably Hardwired (also an homage to Roger Zelazny's novel Damnation Alley and Voice of the Whirlwind', "Foreign Devils"

1995 Stephen Baxter, "Brigantia's Angels"

Special Achievement:

1999 Randall GarrettRandall Garrett ( December 16, 1927 December 31, 1987) was a prolific writer for Astounding and other science fiction magazines in the 1950s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure sf, and collabo: Lord Darcy Series

1997 Robert Sobel : For Want of a Nail

1995 L. Sprague de CampLyon Sprague de Camp was a science fiction and fantasy author born in New York City on November 27, 1907. His first published story was "The Isolinguals" in the September 1937 issue of Astounding Science Fiction''. He went on to write numerous novels, sho