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Cygnus Award for Science FictionThe 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 and Novel Competitions (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.

The Finalists works will compete for the First Place Winner positions. First Place Winners will be announced and recognized at the 2020 CIBA Banquet June 5th, 2021. 

Congratulations to the 2020 Cygnus Book Awards FINALISTS!

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORT LIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.  

  • Mark T. Sneed – Bully Nation
  • Brooke Skipstone – Some Laneys Died
  • B.T. Keaton – Transference
  • JL Morin – Loveoid
  • Bryan K. Prosek – Paradoxical
  • Timothy S. Johnston – The Savage Deeps
  • Mike Meier – JoinWith.Me
  • Palmer Pickering – Moon Deeds 
  • Ted Neill – Reaper Moon: Race War in the Post Apocalypse
  • Dr. Anay Ayarovu – STAZR the World Of Z: The Dawn of Athir
  • PA Vasey – Trinity’s Fall
  • Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle – The Luna Missile Crisis
  • Russ Colson – The Arasmith Certainty Principle
  • Zach Fortier – Volk: Book one of The Overseer series
  • Susan Wingate – The Lesser Witness
  • Dennis M. Clausen – The Accountant’s Apprentice
  • Courtney Leigh Pahlke – Life Force Preserve
  • Marc Corwin – The Optical Lasso

Good luck to all as your works compete on the next rounds of judging.

The next round of judging will decide which books move on to the Finalist positions for the 2020 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction novels.

 

 

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

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We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 CYGNUS  Awards writing competition. The deadline for submissions is April 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.

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