Pamela Sargent

The judges for the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History are pleased to announce the finalists for the 1998 Sidewise Awards. The awards will be presented at Aussiecon, the 57th World Science Fiction Convention, held from September 2 - September 6. For more information, please contact Steven Silver (shsilver@ameritech.net) or see our website at http://www.skatecity.com/ah/sidewise/.

LONG FORM: (60,000 words or longer or complete series)

• Greg Bear, Dinosaur Summer, Warner 1998; Voyager 1998
• Stephen Fry, Making History, Hutchinson 1996; Random House 1998
• Pamela Sargent, Climb the Wind, HarperPrism 1998

SHORT FORM: (shorter than 60,000 words)

• Stephen Baxter & Arthur C. Clarke, "The Wire Continuum," Playboy, 1/98
• Ian R. MacLeod, "The Summer Isles," Asimov's 10-11/98
• Robert Silverberg, "Waiting for the End," Asimov's 10-11/98
• Howard Waldrop, "US," Event Horizon 10/14/98

"Hillary Orbits Venus," an alternative present, is a feature story in the Spring 1999 issue of Amazing Stories, available at your newstand now. While in high school, Hillary Rodham wrote to NASA to ask how to prepare for a career as an astronaut. The answer she received was disappointing: NASA wasn't interested in accepting females for astronaut training. Sargent's story explores what might have been-and what might be today--if Hillary had received a different answer.