Sammy hopes to be on the red carpet to collect a winning prize.
A short story published by Sealion Press has been nominated in the short-form category of the Sidewise Awards, the annual prize for alternate history work for the year of 2023.
Mark Ciccone, a regular SLP writer who also wrote the books Kansas Troubles and A Bright Cold Day , has been nominated for Toe-to-Toe published as part of the If We Only Got That Penalty anthology.
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Sealion Press would like to congratulate Mark and wish him the very best when the winners are announced in August 2024 at Glasgow WorldCon.
Mark follows in the footsteps of fellow SLP author Matthew Kresal who won the short-form award in 2021 with a story from the Alternate Australia anthology.
What is If We Only Got That Penalty about? Not all historic drama happens on the battlefields or at the ballot box. There have always been epic stories instead focused on the drama of professional sports, and history is filled with real life reasons why.
In this anthology, you will find 12 more. Except these sporting stories are set in Alternate History settings. In these tales you will find, an independent New England playing the USA they left at Buzkashi, football continuing in London after a nuclear war, the 1952 Olympics being held in a decaying Nazi Germany, Rollerball celebrating its first 'Rollermania', and many other imaginative takes on sporting stories that never happened, but could have done.
Mark's story is the 1952 Olympics being held in a decaying Nazi Germany.
Congratulations to Mark for being nominated, and fingers crossed for the announcement of winners.
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