LONG FORM (tie)

• Ruled Britannia, Harry Turtledove (NAL)
• The Severed Wing, Martin J. Gidron (Livingston Press)
• The Peshawar Lancers, S. M. Stirling (Roc)
• The Separation, Christopher Priest (Scribner UK)
• The Year of the Hangman, Gary L. Blackwood (Dutton)

SHORT FORM

• "Empire", William Sanders (Alternate Generals II Harry Turtledove, ed.; Baen, Jul 2002)
• "The Invisible Empire", John Kessel (Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists)
• "The Last Ride of German Freddie", Walter Jon Williams (Worlds That Weren't Roc, Jul 2002)
• "We Come Not to Praise Washington", Charles Coleman Finlay (F&SF Aug 2002)
• "With Caesar in the Underworld", Robert Silverberg (Asimov's Oct 2002)