The 2020 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction – the Long List – 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. 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.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2020 CYGNUS entries to the 2020 Cygnus Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2020 Cygnus Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC20 banquet and ceremony. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 17 CIBA divisions Semi-Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2020 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!

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

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
A.P. Gessner – Morlock
Charis Himeda – CRISPR Evolution
Kononstantinos Grosomanidis – a Journey, a Message, a Tale
Bryan K. Prosek – Paradoxal
R.S. Harmon – Captain’s Covenant
Liam King – Grit
Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl – Merged
Anastasia Fox – Trout Fishing in the Cretaceous
T Alex Ratcliffe – Battle Games
Timothy S. Johnston – The Savage Deeps
Alex McIntosh – Upstream Revolt
Samuel Finn – A Voice From The Moon
Mike Meier – JoinWith.Me
Palmer Pickering – Moon Deeds
C. Hofsetz – Enemy of the Gods
Ted Neill – Reaper Moon: Race War in the Post Apocalypse
Ronald Dunham – Tower of Brahma
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
Scott Woodward – Those Inbetween
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