Our congratulations go out to Mark Hodder today, in this timeline and hopefully many others, as his book, THE SECRET OF ABDU EL-YEZDI (buy from an indie), has been named a finalist for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History!

The winners will be announced in London at Loncon 3, the 72nd Annual World Science Fiction Convention, the weekend of August 14th.

It’s the second year in a row that Mark has been nominated for the Sidewise Award. In 2013, he was a finalist for his prior Burton & Swinburne novel, EXPEDITION TO THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON (buy from an indie).