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Cygnus Award for Science Fiction

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 2022 CYGNUS Science Fiction Long List to the 2022 Cygnus Book Awards Short List These entries are now in competition for the 2022 Cygnus Semi-Finalists. The Semi-Finalists will compete for the Finalist positions. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC23.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2022 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!

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

  • Jay Hartlove – The Insane God
  • Timothy S. Johnston – An Island of Light
  • Melissa Diyab – Crossing Over
  • Charles Ross – The Future is a Memory
  • J. N. Johnson – Pig
  • Annie Williams – Maximized Entropy: Death of the Internet
  • Dana Dargos, Said Al Bizri – Einstein in the Attic
  • D. H. Ford – Rogue Reborn
  • O.E. Tearmann – Deuces Are Wild
  • Lou Dischler – Mona’s Odyssey
  • Ash Bishop – Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc.
  • S.G. Blaise – The Last Lumenian
  • S.G. Blaise – True Teryn
  • Michael Simon – Extinction
  • Nik Frank-Lehrer – Future Show
  • Sydney Raeburn-Power – The Sleepers
  • Dimple Desai – The Lambda Factor
  • Isaac Petrov – The Advent of Dreamtech
  • PA Vasey – Harbinger
  • John J. Spearman – Pike’s Passage
  • E. R. Harris – Surf the Milky Way
  • U.W. Leo – ARKO: The Dark Union (A Sci-fi Adventure Series)
  • Fulmer/Proto Dagg – Terminus
  • Kristopher Clewell – The Penrose Triangle
  • Wilson Whitlow – Consent, Vol. 1: Erdos
  • Joanna Evans – Sinai Unhinged
  • Prescott Harvey – In Beta
  • Bryn Smith – Magnus Nights: The Helios Incident

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

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 CYGNUS Awards is:

A War in Too Many Worlds

By Elizabeth Crowens

Click here to see the 2021 CYGNUS Book Award Winners for Science Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 CYGNUS  Book Awards for Science Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

IN-Person – April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

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A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23