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The FINALISTS Announcement for the CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction – a division of the 2019 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 (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.

The 2019 CIBAs received an unprecedented number of entries making this book awards program even more competitive. More entries along with more competitive works makes the final rounds of judging even more demanding. The judges have requested a new level of achievement to be added to the rounds to acknowledge the entries that they deemed should receive a high level of recognition.

We decided that this was the time to incorporate the new level – The FINALISTS – as requested by the CIBA judges. This new level will be incorporated into the 2019 CIBAs Levels of Achievement. The FINALISTS were selected from the entries that advanced to the 2019 CYGNUS Semi-Finalists level.

Congratulations to the 2019 CYGNUS Book Awards FINALISTS!
- David C. Crowther – City of Drowned Angels
- William X. Adams – Intelligent Things
- J. I. Rogers – The Korpes Agenda
- Erick Mars & Mike Wood – A Legacy of Wrath
- Rey Clark – Titan Code: Dawn of Genesis
- Trever Bierschbach – Embers of Liberty
- Tim Cole – Insynnium
- Shami Stovall – Star Marque Rising
- Sandra J. Jackson – Playing in the Rain
- Samuel Winburn – Ten Directions
- Andrew Lucas McIlroy – Earthling
- Paul Werner – Mustang Bettie
- Jacques St-Malo – Cognition
- Timothy S. Johnston – The War Beneath
- Robert M. Kerns – It Ain’t Over…
- Paul Ian Cross – The Lights of Time
- Lawrence Brown – David: Savakerrva, Vol. 1
Congratulations to all whose works have advanced to the FINALISTS level.

All Semi-Finalists and Finalists will be recognized at the 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference and the 2019 CIBA banquet and ceremony.

Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging for the limited 2019 1st Place Category Positions and the 2019 CYGNUS Book Awards Grand Prize.

The 2019 CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner and the Five First Place Category Position award winners along with the FINALISTS and Semi-Finalists will be recognized at the Sept 5, 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, Bellingham, Wash.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, CAC20 has been rescheduled from the original date in April to September 4 – 6, 2020 with Master Classes to be held on Thursday, September 3. The CIBA Banquet and Ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, September 5, 2020.

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 April 2021.

Please click here for more information.
April 20, 2020
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

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.
July 6, 2019
The CYGNUS International Book Awards for Science Fiction – The Official List
We are excited and honored to officially announce the Grand Prize Winner and the First Place Category Winners for the 2017 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction Novels at the fifth annual Chanticleer Authors Conference and the sixth annual Chanticleer Book Awards Ceremony. This year’s ceremony and banquet were held on Saturday, April 21st, 2018 at the Hotel Bellwether by beautiful Bellingham Bay, Wash.

We want to thank all of those who entered and participated in the 2017 Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

When we receive the digital photographs from the Official CAC18 photographer, we will post them here and on the complete announcement that will list all the genres and the Overall Grand Prize Winner for the 2017 Chanticleer International Book Awards. Please check back!

Click here for the link to the 2017 Cygnus Shortlisters! An email will go out within three weeks to all Shortlisters with links to digital badges and how to order Shortlister stickers.

James Wells, the author of the 2015 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner, The Great Symmetry, announced the First Place Award Winners and the Grand Prize Winner for the 2017 CYGNUS Book Awards at the Chanticleer Awards Banquet and Ceremony.

Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners of the 2017 Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction.

An email will go out to all First Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Winners with more information, the timing of awarded reviews, links to digital badges, and more by May 21st, 2018 (four weeks after the awards ceremony). Please look for it.

2017 Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction First in Category Winners
- First Command by Michael Simon
- The Last Detective by Brian Cohn
- Oort Rising by Magnus Victor
- The Future’s Dark Past by John Yarrow
- Breaching The Parallel by MW Anderson
- Strain of Resistance by Michelle Bryan
Honorable Mentions:
- Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein (a short story collection)
- The Power of Three: The Novel of a Whale, a Woman, and an Alien Child by Cathy Parker
And now for the 2017 CYGNUS Grand Prize Book Award Winner for Science Fiction:

The Future’s Dark Past

by John Yarrow

This post will be updated with photos. Please do visit it again!

The last date for submissions for the 2018 Cygnus Book Awards is April 30, 2018 Midnight (PST),

Our next Chanticleer International Book Awards Banquet will be held on Saturday, April 20th, 2019, for the 2018 winners. Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!
April 25, 2018
The ARIADNE CONNECTION by Sara Stamey, a SciFi Thriller set in Greece

The year is 2027 and planet Earth is angry. Pollution has gone viral, ravaging the global environment while corporate technocracy has invaded all aspects of the media using its sensory-loaded “NeuroLink” productions to commandeer the thoughts and will of the masses.

Radical climate swings, drought and famine, flood and pestilence take on Biblical meaning. And deep inside its core, the bowels of the earth are being rocked by a violent shift of its geomagnetic poles – a shift paired with cataclysmic seismic activity.

With planetary life headed for extinction, mankind reaches out to its “Gods,” both secular and non-secular, for salvation. At the same time whisperings on the NeuroLink claim that there is a savior among them. Saint Ariadne.

With the story of a lifetime in her sghts, NeuroLink celebrity Leeza Conreid calls upon “freelance import expediter” Peter Mitchell to take her into the dark heart of the militarized Mediterranean League’s territory. She’s confident that her history with Ariadne will give her the access she needs, but Leeza has more than a hot story on her mind. Broken promises and a perceived betrayal have warped her soul, launching her on a revenge-driven mission to expose and destroy Ariadne.

“Saint” Ariadne has her own plan. After pushing into alternative scientific frontiers using pulsed laser, electronic stimulation and a mysterious “tonic” water, she’s on the verge of finding a cure for a rapidly-progressing form of leprosy. But the ongoing electromagnetic upheaval is tapping into something primal in her DNA, and her life’s work as well as her “healing abilities” are under attack. With global salvation at stake, Ariadne must escape from the exile of her father’s house and place her trust in the talents of hard-drinking smuggler Peter Mitchell.

Destined to be a classic in the Speculative Fiction genre, Sara Stamey’s Cygnus Award-winning novel, The Ariadne Connection, takes the reader on a visual feast through the azure waters and rugged Mediterranean landscape of the Greek Islands while tapping into the deep roots of mythological tradition. And her use of well-defined, believable characters invites us to cinch our seatbelts tight and come along for the ride of a lifetime.

With a clever nod to movie blockbusters such as “The Fifth Element” and “Transporter,” Sara Stamey’s near-future novel The Ariadne Connection is a rocket-paced thrill ride that delivers complex, engaging characters in a laser-sharp plot.

October 30, 2015
The Cygnus Awards 2014 Finalists – Official List
The results for the 2014 Cygnus Awards Finalists are in.

The Cygnus Awards recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of SciFi & Fantasy Fiction. It is a division of Chanticleer Book Reviews Blue Ribbon Awards Writing Competitions.

The Cygnus Awards has eight sub-genres which are: Steampunk, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Fantasy, Paranormal, Mythological, Soft Sci-Fi/Young Adult, and Speculative Fiction.

Congratulations are in order for the following authors who made it to the Short List, The Cygnus 2014 FINALISTS OFFICIAL LIST:
- Selah J. Tay-Song for Dreams of a Vast Blue Cavern
- Robert L. Slater for All is Silence
- Yuan Jur for Citadel 7, Earth’s Secret: Enemy of Existence
- Ryan Henry for Betrayal on Triton
- V. Lakshman for Mythborn: Rise of the Adepts
- Sara Stamey for The Ariadne Connection
- D. C. for Prodigy Genius
- Michael Simon for Natural Selection
- H. G. Bleackley for ISO
- Jane Baskin for The New Earth: Rhapsody
- Tom and Nancy Wise for The Borealis Genome
- Laura Burroughs for The Foxes of Caminus
- Sherrill Nilson for Karda: Adalta
- Jianna Higgins for Filled to Completion
- Simone Pond for The City Center
- Robert Carrell for The Pinks and the Kinks
- Samantha Bryant for Going Through the Change
- Ryan Henry for Betrayal on Titan
- James Zerndt for The Cloud Seeders
- James Musgrave for Jane the Grabber
- J. M. Salyards for Shadow of the Last Man
- Michael Suma for Natural Selection
- Time Vander Meulin for A Humble Heart
- Christopher Pepper for Outrider Legion
- Allen W. Johnson for Blood Line Secrets
- Paul C. Breslin for Observer of the First Order
- Zachary J. Kitchen for The Unbeliever
- Alisse Lee Goldenberg for The Strings of a Violin
- Lorrie Farrelly for Time Lapse
- Jessica Schaub for Gateways
- Jamie Smith for Shadow Wars: The Arcana
- Richard Pulfer for Godtown
- Michael Murphey for About Time
- Terri-Lynn DeFino for Beyond the Gate
- Robert G. Ferrell for Goblinopolis
- Michael Wolff for Smoke and Mirrors
- Joannah Miley for The Immortal Game
- Brett A. Lawrence for The Shadow Guardians
- Jesikah Sundin for Legacy: The Biodome Chronicles
- Ashland Menshouse for The Last Guardian and Keeper of the Magi
Finalists will continue on to compete for a first place category win in their sub-genre, and then for the overall grand prize of the 2014 Cygnus Awards. First place category winners will receive an award package including a complimentary book review, digital award badges, shelf talkers, book stickers, and more.

We are now accepting submissions into the Cygnus Awards 2015. Deadline is January 31, 2015.
October 4, 2014