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Cygnus Award for Science Fiction Badge of a bright star shining out of a galaxy

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 Book 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 for Science Fiction. 

Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Genetic Modification, Aliens, Super Humans, Interplanetary Travel, Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi), 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.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 CYGNUS Science Fiction Long List to the 2021 Cygnus Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2021 Cygnus Semi-Finalists. FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The 2021 CYGNUS FINALISTS will be selected from the CYGNUS Semi-Finalists.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALS of the 2021 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!

Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

  • J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings  
  • Sarah Lahey – Nostalgia Is Heartless, Book Two 
  • Joe Butler – Of All Possibilities   
  • Michael Hicks Thompson – Clouds Above    
  • Spaulding Taylor – Last Star Standing
  • Dale Renton – DART   
  • S. W. Lawrence, MD – Earth Dragon     
  • Max Mason – Novastrom: Adventures from the Zrax Wars    
  • Mark D. Owen – Impact    
  • Steven Seril – The Destroyer of Worlds: ‘An Answer to Every Question’   
  • Akosua Sankofa – Monmouth Deep   
  • John Teton – The Book of Geezer      
  • Gary Clark – The Given   
  • Rhett C. Bruno – Vicarious   
  • Timothy S. Johnston – Fatal Depth     
  • Peter Greene – Light of Ganymede     
  • Kristie Clark – Dragon Gold
  • Dimple Patel Desai – The Lambda Factor   
  • John J Spearman – Pike’s Potential     
  • Charlene Newcomb – Echoes of the Storm    
  • D.H. Ford – Cosmic Swap    
  • William M. Hayes – Save Him   
  • William X. Adams – Alien Dream Machine   
  • Michael J Metroke – The Masada Affair   
  • PA Vasey – Trinity Evolution    
  • Daniel C. McWhorter – Revival: The Gaia Origin, Book Two     
  • Robert C Littlewood – Deviance     
  • Jenn Lees – Restoring Time: Community Chronicles Book 4      
  • Bernie Koenig – B.R.A.I.N.   
  • Daniele Kasper – Cut Her Out In Little Stars    
  • William X. Adams – Alien Panic     
  • Elizabeth Crowens – A War in Too Many Worlds   
  • Sandra J. Jackson – Catching Butterflies
  • Dana Claire – The Connection      
  • Gina Detwiler – Forgiven       
  • Sam Stea – The Edge of Elsewhere     

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

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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

Click here to see the 2020 CYGNUS Book Award Winners for Science Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 CYGNUS  Awards writing competition.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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