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The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring space, time travel, life on other planets, parallel universes, alternate reality, and all the science, technology, major social or environmental changes of the future that author imaginations can dream up for the CYGNUS Book Awards division. Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Genetic Modification, Aliens, Super Humans, Interplanetary Travel, and Settlers on the Galactic Frontier, Dystopian, our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.
Get your Sci-fi on
enter the CYGNUS AWARDS today!
Who will receive a beautiful CIBA CYGNUS Blue Ribbon?
Which CYGNUS AWARD winner will receive the next big publishing contract or land a top agent…?
Bennett Coles CYGNUS Grand Prize for VIRTUES of WAR
Harper Collins Voyager has picked up CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner Bennett R. Coles for his latest work Winds of Marque.
Titan U.K. picked up his CYGNUS award-winning Virtues of War and then contracted for two more books in his series: Ghosts of War and March of War.
Will it be you? 
THE DEADLINE TO ENTER THE 2020 CYGNUS Novel Writing Competitions is April 30, 2020.
The CYGNUS BOOK AWARDS
Hall of Fame
2018 Grand Prize Winner:
The Korpes File by J.I Rogers took home the 2018 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction Grand Prize Blue Ribbon.
2018 First in Category Winners:
- The Fortune Follies by Catori Sarmiento
- It Takes Death to Reach a Star by Stu Jones & Gareth Worthington
- Solar Reboot by Matthew D. Hunt
- Apex Five by Sarah Katz
- The One Apart: A Novel by Justine Avery
- The Selah Branch by Ted Neill
2017 Grand Prize Cygnus Winner:
The Future’s Dark Past by John Yarrow
2017 Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction First in Category Winners
- First Command by Michael Simon
- The Last Detective by Brian Cohn
- Oort Rising by Magnus Victor
- Breaching The Parallel by MW Anderson
- Strain of Resistance by Michelle Bryan
2016 Grand Prize Cygnus Winner:
OVER by Sean Curley
2016 Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction First in Category Winners
- Wizzy Wig by Tiffany Pitts
- The Accountant’s Apprentice by Dennis M. Clausen
- The Ariadne Connection by Sara Stamey
- Prophecy of the Immortals by Ryan London
2015 Grand Prize Cygnus Winner:
The Great Symmetry by James Wells
2015 Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction First in Category Winners
- John Yarrow for The Time Forward Project
- C. A. Knutsen for Janus Unfolding: Emergence
- Janine A. Southard for Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story
- Jessica Schaub for Gateways
- L.S. Kilroy for The Vitruvian Heir
- Tommy Partl for Mechanized
- Timothy S. Johnston for The Furnace
2014 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner:
Citadel 7, Earth’s Secret: Enemy of Existence by Yuan Jur
2014 Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction First in Category Winners:
- Betrayal on Triton by Ryan Henry
- The Unbeliever by Zachary Kitchen
- Mythborn: Rise of the Adepts by Vijay Lakshman
- Dream of a Vast Blue Cavern by Selah Tay-Song
- The Ariadne Connection by Sara Stamey
- The Immortal Game by Joannah Miley
- Shadow of the Last Man, Book 1 by J. M. Salyards
- Legacy: The Biodome Chronicles, Book 1 by Jesikah Sundin
- Timelapse by Lorrie Farrelly
- The Borealis Genome by Thomas P. Wise and Nancy Wise
- The Cloud Seeders by Jamie Zendt
- ISO by H.G. Bleackly
- All Is Silence by Robert L. Slater
- Natural Selection by Michael Simon
2013 Grand Prize Cygnus Winner:
Bennett R. Coles, Virtues of War
2013 First Place Category Winners for the Cygnus Awards are:
- The Lotus Effect by Bridget Ladd
- Celia’s Heaven by Nancy Canyon
- Artemis Rising by Cheri Lasota
- The Maiden Voyage of the Mary Ann by Linda Reed
- Ragnarok: Demon Seed by Ea Bishop
Don’t delay. Enter today!
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