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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. These books have advanced to the Premier Level of Achievement in the 2020 CIBAs.

The 2020 CYGNUS Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner were announced by David Beaumier on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar and Facebook Live.

It is our privilege and profound honor to announce the 1st in Category winners of the 2020 CYGNUS Awards, a division of the 2020 CIBAs.

This is the OFFICIAL 2020 LIST of the CYGNUS BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to all!

  • Mark T. Sneed – Bully Nation
  • JL Morin – Loveoid
  • Timothy S. Johnston – The Savage Deeps
  • 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

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 CYGNUS Awards is:

Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle for

The Luna Missile Crisis

Cover of The Luna Missile Crisis by Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle

The 2021 CYGNUS Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC22 on April 10, 2022. Save the date for CAC22, scheduled April 7-10, 2022, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2022 CYGNUS Book Awards are open until the end of April. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today! 

A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in July. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.