Steven H. Silver, one of the administrators for the Sidewise Award (which honors the best in alternate history stories) has posted the nominees for this year's awards:

Long Form:

• Robert Conroy, 1862
• Paul Park, The Tourmaline
• Charles Stross, The Family Trade, The Hidden Family, and The Clan Corporate
• Harry Turtledove, The Disunited States of America
• Jo Walton, Farthing

Short Form:

• Stephen Baxter, "The Pacific Mystery"
• Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, "O, Pioneer"
• Gardner Dozois, "Counterfactual"
• Chris Floyd, "History Lesson"
• Martin Gidron, "Palestina"
• Brian Stableford, "The Plurality of Worlds"
• Andrew Tisbert, "The Meteor of the War"

Winners will be announced during this year's NASFiC, TuckerCon, this summer in St. Louis.

[via Locus Online]