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 from the 2024 Cygnus Short List to the SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Four Points by Sheraton sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!

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

Timothy S. Johnston – A Blanket of Steel
Daniel Lawrence Abrams – Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don’t Get Hungry
Janet Post – Vee: Shooting Star
Joseph Anderson – Eden 2b
Neil V. Young – Children of the Stars
Jeremy Clift – Born in Space: Unlocking Destiny
Derek Wachter – The Dark Side of the Moon
Mark Sabbas – The Monarchs
Sean M. Tirman – Hounds of Gaia (The Marrower Saga, Book One)
Don Stuart – Darwin’s Dilemma
Sheri T. Joseph – Edge of the Known World
Alexandru Czimbor – Sentience Hazard
Peter Dingus – Deep Time
Jaime Castle – Purgatory
Alexander Boldizar – The Man Who Saw Seconds
Jayson Adams – Ares
A. R. Black – No Man’s Land
Jude Berman – The Die
John Be Lane – The Future Lies
Aaron Arsenault – The Climate Diaries: Book One: The Academy
Russell Klyford – Emergent Mars
S.G. Blaise – Meddling Mages
PJ Caldas – The Girl from Wudang
Thomas Weaver – Artificial Wisdom
Ellen Ricciutti – One Time or Another
Shami Stovall – The Half-Life Empire
Lynn Yvonne Moon – Journey’s Travels – Mirrors

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

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner

The Shadow of War

By Timothy S. Johnston

Click here to see the full list of 2023 CYGNUS Book Award Winners for Science Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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