The 2020 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction – The Short List for the CYGNUS Division of the 2020 CIBAs

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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 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 Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. The Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists.

The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.

Congratulations to the 2020 Cygnus Book Awards SHORT LISTERS!

Brent Golembiewski –Flat Earth
Jonas Saul –The Immortal Gene
Tiffany Meuret –A Flood of Posies
R. Welsh – The Great Filter
Mark T. Sneed – Bully Nation
Brooke Skipstone – Some Laneys Died
B.T. Keaton – Transference
Mark D. Owen – Impact
JL Morin – Loveoid
Charis Himeda – CRISPR Evolution
Bryan K. Prosek – Paradoxal
R.S. Harmon – Captain’s Covenant
Liam King – Grit
Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl – Merged
Timothy S. Johnston – The Savage Deeps
Alex McIntosh – Upstream Revolt #6
Samuel Finn – A Voice From The Moon
Mike Meier – JoinWith.Me
Palmer Pickering – Moon Deeds
Ted Neill – Reaper Moon: Race War in the Post Apocalypse
C. Hofsetz – Enemy of the Gods #4
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
William X. Adams – Alien Body
KeJo Black – A Kingdom in Shards
Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
C.M. Aquavella – Transformation: The Circusity
J.T. Blossom – Lenore and the Problem With Love – When You Go to College Save the Planet
Alexander Usher – Experience Extracted
Russ Colson – The Arasmith Certainty Principle
Zach Fortier – Volk: Book one of The Overseer series
Cary Allen Stone – SEEDS: The Journey Begins
Susan Wingate – The Lesser Witness
Dennis M. Clausen – The Accountant’s Apprentice
Courtney Leigh Pahlke – Life Force Preserve
Marc Corwin – The Optical Lasso
Alan J. Steinberg – To be Enlightened
Michelle Tanmizi – Late Dawn

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

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

The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

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.