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 first look rounds from all 2023 CYGNUS Science Fiction entries to the 2023 Cygnus Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2023 Cygnus Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and 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 luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2023 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!

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

S.W. Lawrence, MD – Climate Dragon
Andrew P. Blaber – Fallow
Diana Fedorak – Children of Alpheios
Lou Dischler – The Rising
Sue C Dugan – Walk-ins Welcome
E.T. Gunnarsson – Abandon Us
E.T. Gunnarsson – Remember Us
Arnie Benn – The Intrepid: Dawn Of The Interstellar Age
Jonny Thompson – Ash and Sun
J.L. Birchwood – The Southron Deception
Alexandra Almeida – Unanimity
S.G. Blaise – Proud Pada
Tamar Anolic – The Fledgling’s Inferno
Diane Lilli – The Last Invention
William X. Adams – Polters
N. John Williams – In the Shadow of Humanity: A Novel
Julia Tvardovskaya – Identifiable
Gareth Worthington – Dark Dweller
J.D. Clason – Salvation
K.M. Messina – Gemja – The Message
Lucia Dolan – Power Surge
R. R. Corvi – The Brangus Rebellion
Amber Kirkpatrick – Unleashed
Michael Simon – Extinction
J. Wint – The Prism Effect
Timothy S. Johnston – The Shadow of War
Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock
Jeanne Hull Godfroy – Midgard
Jamie Eubanks – Hall of Skulls
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
John Blossom – The Last Football Player
Nikki Kallio – Finding the Bones: Stories & A Novella
Sarena Straus – ReInception
Sean O’Connor – Blood Ever After
Tyler Drinkard – Isolated Domain
Melissa Gowdy Baldwin – The Marriage Wars: Book One

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

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Congratulations once more to the 2022 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner

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 that is sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 18 – 21, 2024! Register Today!

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