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 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, Climate-Fiction, 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 2023 CYGNUS Science Fiction Semi-Finalists to the 2023 Cygnus Book Awards Finalists. These entries are now in competition for the 2023 Cygnus 1st Place and Grand Prize Winners. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC24.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

These are the FINALISTS of the 2023 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!

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

Good Luck to All!

  • Lou Dischler – The Rising
  • E.T. Gunnarsson – Abandon Us
  • E.T. Gunnarsson – Remember Us
  • J.L. Birchwood – The Southron Deception
  • Alexandra Almeida – Unanimity
  • S.G. Blaise – Proud Pada
  • Diane Lilli – The Last Invention
  • N. John Williams – In the Shadow of Humanity: A Novel
  • Julia Tvardovskaya – Identifiable
  • Gareth Worthington – Dark Dweller
  • Michael Simon – Extinction
  • Timothy S. Johnston – The Shadow of War
  • Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock
  • Jeanne Hull Godfroy – Midgard
  • Rob Brownell – Invention Is a Mother
  • Dylan McFadyen – Oblivion’s Cloak
  • Donald Firesmith – Hell Holes: A Slave’s Revenge
  • Stu Jones – The Zone: A Cyberpunk Thriller
  • Nikki Kallio – Finding the Bones: Stories & A Novella
  • Sarena Straus – ReInception
  • Melissa Gowdy Baldwin – The Marriage Wars: Book One

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

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Congratulations once more to the 2022 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner

The Last Lumenian

By S. G. Blaise

The Blue and Gold Badge for the Cygnus 2022 Grand Prize Book Award for the CIBAs The Last Lumenian by S.G. Blaise

Click here to see the full list of 2022 CYGNUS Book Award Winners for Science Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 CYGNUS  Book Awards for Science Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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