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  • CYGNUS SPOTLIGHT for SCI-FI – Book Awards, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Time Travel, Genetic Mods, Tech, Apocalyptic, Space Aliens

    CYGNUS SPOTLIGHT for SCI-FI – Book Awards, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Time Travel, Genetic Mods, Tech, Apocalyptic, Space Aliens

    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 (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.

    Get your Sci-fi on

     enter the CYGNUS AWARDS today!

    Who will receive a beautiful CIBA  CYGNUS Blue Ribbon? 

    Which CYGNUS AWARD winner will receive the next big publishing contract or land a top agent…? 

    Bennett Coles CYGNUS Grand Prize for VIRTUES of WAR 

    Harper Collins Voyager has picked up CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner Bennett R. Coles for his latest work Winds of Marque.

    Titan U.K. picked up his CYGNUS award-winning Virtues of War and then contracted for two more books in his series: Ghosts of War and March of War.

    Virtues of War

     

    Will it be you? 

    THE DEADLINE TO ENTER THE 2020 CYGNUS Novel Writing Competitions is April 30, 2020.

    ENTER TODAY!


    The CYGNUS BOOK AWARDS 

    Hall of Fame

    2018 Grand Prize Winner: 

    The Korpes File by J.I Rogers took home the 2018 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction Grand Prize Blue Ribbon.

     

     

     

    2018 First in Category Winners:

    • The Fortune Follies by Catori Sarmiento
    • It Takes Death to Reach a Star by Stu Jones & Gareth Worthington
    • Solar Reboot by Matthew D. Hunt
    • Apex Five by Sarah Katz
    • The One Apart: A Novel by Justine Avery
    • The Selah Branch by Ted Neill   

    2017 Grand Prize Cygnus Winner: 

    The Future’s Dark Past by John Yarrow

     

     

     

    2017 Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction First in Category Winners

     

     

    2016 Grand Prize Cygnus Winner:

     

    OVER by Sean Curley

     

    2016 Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction First in Category Winners


    2015 Grand Prize Cygnus Winner:

    The Great Symmetry by James Wells

    2015 Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction First in Category Winners


    2014 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner:

    Enemy of Existence by Yuan Jur

    Citadel 7, Earth’s Secret: Enemy of Existence by Yuan Jur

    2014 Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction First in Category Winners:


    2013 Grand Prize Cygnus Winner:

    Bennett R. ColesVirtues of War

    2013 First Place Category Winners for the Cygnus Awards are:

    • The Lotus Effect by Bridget Ladd
    • Celia’s Heaven by Nancy Canyon
    • Artemis Rising by Cheri Lasota
    • The Maiden Voyage of the Mary Ann by Linda Reed
    • Ragnarok: Demon Seed by Ea Bishop

         

         

        Don’t delay. Enter today! 

        Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media, L.L.C.  retains the right to not declare “default winners.” Winning works are decided upon merit only. Please visit our Contest Details page for more information about our writing contest guidelines.

        CBR’s rigorous writing competition standards are why literary agencies seek out our winning manuscripts and self-published novels. Our high standards are also why our reviews are trusted among booksellers and book distributors.

        Please do not hesitate to contact Info@ChantiReviews.com about any questions, concerns, or suggestions about the Chanticleer International Book Awards. Your input and suggestions are important to us.

        Click here for more information about the Chanticleer Book Reviews International Book Awards.

      • The 2019 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction Long List – the CIBAs

        The 2019 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction Long List – the CIBAs

        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 (CIBA).

        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.

        CYGNUS Book Awards Alumni – The Stakes Are Out of This World! 

        Bennett R. Coles, a CYGNUS Grand Prize award winner for VIRTUES OF WAR, his debut novel, landed a sweet 3 book deal from Titan UK and he has just landed another from Harper Collins Voyager for his science fiction works.

        Bennett Coles CYGNUS Grand Prize for VIRTUES of WAR (2013)

        We love having the CYGNUS awards and Chanticleer quotes on the covers! #justsaying

        Virtues of War

        CYGNUS 1st Place Winners CHILDREN of the FIFTH SUN and IT TAKES DEATH to REACH a STAR by Gareth Worthington and Stu Jones were picked up by VESUVIAN Media Group.

        Please email us about your work’s progress! We love to brag about CYGNUS Award-Winning Science Fiction

        These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2019 Cygnus Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2019 Cygnus Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Quarter-Finalist positions. The Quarter Finalist works 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 16 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, 2020 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. 

        These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2019 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!

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

        • Lawrence Brown – David: Savakerrva, Vol. 1
        • Mart Sander – The Goddess Of the Devil
        • Jim Cronin – Aeon Rises
        • William X. Adams – Intelligent Things
        • Erick Mars & Mike Wood – A Legacy of Wrath
        • Richard Mann – Purpose
        • Brett A. Lawrence – Shadow Seers
        • Callie Smith and Maura Smith – Fort Snow
        • Andrew Lucas McIlroy – Earthling
        • Charis Himeda – CRISPR Evolution
        • Paul Ian Cross – The Lights of Time
        • Jenn Lees – Stolen Time: Community Chronicles Book 2
        • Robert M. Kerns – It Ain’t Over…
        • J. I. Rogers – The Korpes Agenda
        • D. D. Wolf – Orchids Ablaze
        • Bryan K. Prosek – Paradoxal
        • William T. Kenny – The Conscious Whole
        • Alison Lyke – Forever People
        • Paul Werner – Mustang Bettie
        • V.L. Arias – The Expiration Date
        • Adam Boostrom – Athena’s Choice
        • Monica Harte – San Francisco
        • Jay Ashkinos – Hypergiant – Compendium One
        • Rey Clark – Titan Code: Dawn of Genesis
        • Trever Bierschbach – Embers of Liberty
        • Tim Cole – Insynnium
        • Sandra J. Jackson – Playing in the Rain
        • Samuel Winburn – Ten Directions
        • Grace Goodwin – Rogue Cyborg
        • J. Steven Young – Trumpery Resistance
        • Robert Sells – Revelations
        • Ken Hart – It was a Small Affair
        • Jacques St-Malo – Cognition
        • Timothy S. Johnston – The War Beneath
        • Thomas McDaniel – Rekindled
        • John Bowie – The Houses of the Curious
        • Shami Stovall – Star Marque Rising
        • D G Lamb – The Deepest Cut (Driven to the Hilt Book 1)
        • Terry Persun – BIOMASS Rewind
        • N. Matthias Moore – CLOUD 9
        • Darrell Lee – The Apotheosis
        • William X. Adams – Reluctant Android
        • David C. Crowther – City of Drowned Angels
        • Stephen Martino – The Final Reality
        • K.N. Salustro – Light Runner

        Congratulations to J. I. ROGERS for the KORPES FILE taking home the 2018 CYGNUS Book Awards Grand Prize Ribbon

        All Semi-Finalists will receive high visibility along with special ribbons to wear during the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala.

        As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.

        The CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner and the Five First Place Category Position award winners along with the Semi-Finalists will be announced at the April 18th, 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash. 

         

        We are now accepting submissions into the 2020 CYGNUS  Awards writing competition. The deadline for submissions is April 30th, 2020. The winners will be announced in April 2021.

        Please click here for more information.  

         

         

      • Celebrating CYGNUS Book Award Winners – January’s Spotlight is Science Fiction

        Celebrating CYGNUS Book Award Winners – January’s Spotlight is Science Fiction

        Cygnus Award for Science Fiction

         

        January is SciFi month here at Chanticleer Reviews where we celebrate CYGNUS Book Award winners!

        And we have reason to celebrate! And the CYGNUS Book Award Winners definitely have reason to celebrate!

        In case you are wondering, yes, that is the CYGNUS constellation on the  CYGNUS badge. Gorgeous isn’t it?

         

        Harper Collins Voyager has picked up CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner Bennett R. Coles for his latest work Winds of Marque.  Titan U.K. picked up his CYGNUS award-winning Virtues of War and then contracted for two more books in his series:  Ghosts of War and March of War.

        Bennett R. Coles CYGNUS Grand Prize for VIRTUES of WAR

        #justsaying We call ’em like we see ’em! – Kiffer
        Virtues of War

        The CYGNUS Book Awards, a division of the 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, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

        AND we have found some great reads! 

        More CYGNUS Book Awards Grand Prize Winners with links!

        The Future’s Dark Past by John Yarrow

         

        OVER by Sean Curley

        The Great Symmetry by James Wells

        Some other CYGNUS Book Award First Place Category winners:

        Oort Rising by Magnus Victor

        Wizzy Wig by Tiffany Pitts

        The Ariadne Connection by Sara Stamey

        The Accountant’s Apprentice by Dennis M. Clausen 

        Prophecy of the Immortals by Ryan London

        The Cloud Seeders by Jamie Zerndt  (dystopian

        All is Silence by Robert L Slater 

        Janus Unfolding by C.A. Knutzen

        We wonder which CYGNUS Book Award winner will receive the next big publishing contract or land a top agent…? 

        When we started the CYGNUS Book Awards, we included science fiction, fantasy, steampunk, paranormal, lab lit, time travel, etc.

        We have since added:

        • OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction
        • PARANORMAL Book Awards for Supernatural & Paranormal Fiction
        • Global Thriller Book Awards for Lab Lit and Global Thrillers (think James Bond or Se7en)

        Cygnus Award for Science Fiction

         

         

        We’ve posted the 2018 CYGNUS Book Awards Semi-Finalists. Click here to see the list.

        We will announce the CYGNUS First Place Category Winners and the CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner on Saturday, April 27th, 2019 at the Chanticleer International Book Awards Ceremony and Banquet that will be held at the Hotel Bellwether.

        Enter the 2019 CYGNUS Book Awards – the deadline is April 30, 2019.

        Who will take home the CIBA Blue Ribbons?  

         

         

      • CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner Lands 3-Book Contract with TITAN

        CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner Lands 3-Book Contract with TITAN

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        Chanticleer Book Reviews is honored and proud to announce that Bennett R. Coles, CYGNUS Awards 2013 Grand Prize Winner, was contracted by Titan Books for a three book deal for his Astral Saga series.

        Titan Books  is known for its Doctor Who series, Gregory Benford and Larry Niven collections of Ringworld, Timescape, Shipstar fame, George R.R. Martins & Hugh Howey’s Wasteland series, William C. Dietz of Legion of the Damned series, along with other sci-fi powerhouses. And now Bennett R. Coles, Chanticleer Communty Author, SciFi ! 

        Virtues of War debuts in the Titan Spring 2015 catalog and will be represented by Titan at all the major book trade shows.

        The immensely talented Fred Gambino created the cover art for the military science fiction novel from Bennett Coles for Titan.
        Virtues of War

        A sci-fi thriller of physical and psychological combat, Virtues of War sends readers hurtling through space to find that our warlike nature has survived intact into the 26th century. Click here to read the rest of the review.

        We are looking forward to reviewing the second book in the Astral Saga Trilogy.

        Here is the catalog copy for Virtues of War:

        Lieutenant Katja Emmes is a platoon commander who was transferred last-minute to be the leader of the 10-trooper strike team carried aboard the fast-attack craft Rapier. Although fully trained, she has never led troops in real operations before, and she is haunted by the shadow of her war-hero father.

        Sublieutenant Jack Mallory is fresh out of pilot school, reluctantly doing his duty in the mysterious world of extra-dimensional warfare while pining for the glamour of a fighter pilot position in the space fleet. Day-dreaming his way through life, Jack is in for a rude awakening.

        Lieutenant Commander Thomas Kane is poised for promotion, and he knows that this six-month deployment in command of Rapier is the single, best chance to secure his rise to stardom within the Astral Force. He has already learned that performance alone isn’t enough and actively dabbles in the subtle politics of his professional world, but he will learn that there are far more dangerous foes than the ones he can see.

        Set far enough in the future to present a society that has evolved and splintered from our own, Virtues of War is a sci fi novel that reveals the traits common in any age, and ultimately looks at the heart of what makes us human.

         

        Ben Coles2013-CygnusBen Coles, an officer with plus 15-years experience in the Canadian Navy, demonstrates a crisp writing style, an impressive knowledge of military tactics and techno jargon, and an imagination crossed with a study of physics that has produced believable weaponry and space travel of the future. Way to go, Ben!

        Here is Ben at the Chanticleer Awards Gala receiving his award. Photo courtesy of Elaine Dillon–all rights reserved.

        Whose work will be awarded the next Cygnus Grand Prize Award? You can’t win if you don’t enter!

        Click Here for information about the Cygnus Awards for Sci-Fi Writing Competition.

      • CYGNUS AWARDS for SciFi & Speculative Fiction FIRST PLACE Category Winners

        CYGNUS AWARDS for SciFi & Speculative Fiction FIRST PLACE Category Winners

        Chanticleer Book Reviews is honored to announce the First Place Category Winners for the Cygnus Awards 2014, a genre division of the Chanticleer Blue Ribbon Award Writing Competitions.

        cygnus-headerThe Cygnus Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Mythological, and Steampunk fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer Book Reviews Blue Ribbon Awards Writing Competitions.

        First Place Category Winners for the Cygnus Awards are:

        • Space Opera Sci-Fi Series: Citadel 7, Earth’s Secret: Enemy of Existence by Yuan Jur
        • Military Sci-fiction: Betrayal on Triton by Ryan Henry
        • Paranormal: The Unbeliever  by Zachary Kitchen
        • Dark Fantasy/Gamer:  Mythborn: Rise of the Adepts by Vijay Lakshman
        • Epic Fantasy: Dream of a Vast Blue Cavern by Selah Tay-Song
        • Speculative Fiction: The Ariadne Connection by Sara Stamey
        • Mythological: The Immortal Game by Joannah Miley
        • Sci-Fi: Shadow of the Last Man, Book 1 by J. M. Salyards
        • SciFi/Cyperpunk: Legacy: The Biodome Chronicles, Book 1 by Jesikah Sundin
        • Time Travel:  Timelapse by Lorrie Farrelly
        • Lab Lit SciFi:  The Borealis Genome by Thomas P. Wise and Nancy Wise
        • New Adult Dystopian: The Cloud Seeders by Jamie Zendt
        • New Adult Sci-Fi: ISO by H.G. Bleackly
        • YA Dystopian: All Is Silence by Robert L. Slater
        • Best SciFi Manuscript:  Natural Selection by Michael Simon

        CONGRATULATIONS!

        The 1st Place Category Winners compete for the CYGNUS AWARDS 2014 GRAND PRIZE position. The 2014 CYGNUS category winner was announced at the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala in September 2015. See the Grand Prize Winners.

        • The deadline for The Cygnus Awards 2014 was Jan. 31, 2014.
        • The deadline for The Cygnus Awards 2015 is Jan. 31, 2015.

        GRAND PRIZE Overall Cygnus Awards Winner from 2013:

        2013-CygnusBennett R. Coles, Virtues of War.  

        Titan U.K picked up VoW for a three book deal. Check out the cover reveal from TOR here. 

        Tor.com is pleased to reveal Fred Gambino’s cover art for Virtues of War, a new military science fiction novel from Bennett R. Coles! Virtues of War is the first book in The Astral Saga trilogy, and will be published in June 2015 by Titan Books.

        To view the 2013 CYGNUS Award Winners, please click here.

        To compete in the 2015 CYGNUS Awards or for more information, please click here.

        THE DEADLINE TO ENTER THE 2015 CYGNUS Novel Writing Competitions is January 31st, 2015.

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      • “Virtues of War” by Bennett R. Coles won the 1st Place SciFi Military Category of the Cygnus Awards

        “Virtues of War” by Bennett R. Coles won the 1st Place SciFi Military Category of the Cygnus Awards

        virtues of war imageChanticleer Book Reviews is honored to award the Cygnus Awards 1st Place for SciFi Military Novel Category  to Bennett R. Coles for Virtues of War.

        Virtues of War by Bennett R. Coles

        Virtues of War is now eligible to compete for the Cygnus Awards Overall 1st Place Blue Ribbon Award for Best Science Fiction & Fantasy works 2013.

        The author, Bennett R. Coles, an officer with plus 15-years experience in the Canadian Navy, demonstrates a crisp writing style, an impressive knowledge of military tactics and techno jargon, and an imagination crossed with a study of physics that has produced believable weaponry and space travel of the future.

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      • Virtues of War by Bennett R. Coles

        Virtues of War by Bennett R. Coles

        A sci-fi thriller of physical and psychological combat, Virtues of War sends readers hurtling through space to find that our warlike nature has survived intact into the 26th century. This is no Star Trek mission of exploration, and there are no aliens: only long-established colonies in the Centauri system rebelling against Terran rule. Humankind’s technological evolution may have continued at breakneck speed, but social evolution has yet to catch up.

        Lt. Katja Emmes, fast-attack strike leader of the small but pivotal warship Rapier, leads her troops into a hot zone on Cerberus—a minor operation to target a Centauri spy. It’s her first mission, and it leads to her first kill. It also leads to a full-on war between Terran Astral Forces and Centauri’s colonies which, despite an outwardly peaceful existence, have developed robotic killing machines far beyond Terran expectations.

        Thus begins a narrative of nonstop action, swift pacing, and near-constant tension. Drops from space through planetary atmosphere are vicarious thrill rides that get the reader’s heart pumping, and battle scenes are wrought with suspense.

        The author, Bennett R. Coles, an officer with plus 15-years experience in the Canadian Navy, demonstrates a crisp writing style, an impressive knowledge of military tactics and techno jargon, and an imagination crossed with a study of physics that has produced believable weaponry and space travel of the future.

        Although action is clearly his strong suit, Coles has created an engaging set of characters. Katja Emmes has a chip on her shoulder placed by a cold-hearted father, and she’s constantly trying to prove herself against his Army bias. Lt. Cdr. Thomas Kane, Rapier’s captain, has a big heart, but he’s easily swayed by the promise of promotion and even more so by the scheming, power-hungry Lt. Charity “Breeze” Brisebois, a vixen of a villain. And sub-lieutenant Jack Mallory, whose disfigurement early on fails to dampen his sunny optimism, enjoys a steady climb in respect as his superior intellect transcends his boyish charm.

        The Astral Forces are filled with assorted men and women at every level of rank, and each, though briefly drawn, are clear individuals. War may still be ever-present in a society that is now intergalactic, but at least equality between the sexes has been achieved.

        Well into the story, exemplary soldier Katja ponders the incredible civilian death toll and the necessity of war. It is a potential turning point, and she nearly takes the next step into a desire for peace that one hopes could resound throughout humankind. But, luckily for Virtues of War readers, this is the first in a series, and such a step will take many more battles—both military and societal—before that possibility can be achieved.

        Virtues of War has earned the Cygnus Awards 2013 GRAND 2013-CygnusPRIZE for SciFi and Speculative Fiction Category,  a division of the Chanticleer Book Reviews Novel Competitions.