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  • CYGNUS BOOK AWARDS for Science Fiction Novels – the Grand Prize Winner and First Place Category Winners – 2018 CIBAs

    CYGNUS BOOK AWARDS for Science Fiction Novels – the Grand Prize Winner and First Place Category Winners – 2018 CIBAs

    Cygnus Award for Science FictionCYGNUS BOOK AWARDS for Science Fiction, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

    We are excited and honored to officially announce the Grand Prize Winner and the First Place Category Winners for the 2018 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction Novels at the annual Chanticleer Authors Conference and the 2018 Chanticleer International Book Awards ceremony. This year’s ceremony and banquet were held on Saturday, April 27th, 2019 at the Hotel Bellwether by beautiful Bellingham Bay, Wash.

    We want to thank all of those who entered and participated in the  2018 Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

    Sean Curley, the author of the previous Cygnus Grand Prize Winner, OVER,  announced the First Place Award Winners and the Grand Prize Winner for the 2018 CYGNUS Book Awards at the Chanticleer International Book Awards Banquet and Ceremony. PublishDrive and Hindenburg Systems awarded additional prizes to the 2018 CYGNUS Book Award winners. Thank you!

    2018 Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction First Place Winners – Best in Category

    • 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   

    Honorable Mention:  Ten Directions by Samuel Winburn

    Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners of the 2018 Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction. 

    And now for the

    CYGNUS BOOK AWARDS

    GRAND PRIZE WINNER for Science Fiction

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

     

    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 before May 31st, 2019 (approximately four weeks after the awards ceremony). Please look for it in your email inbox.

    When we receive the digital photographs from the Official CAC19 professional photographer, Dwayne Rogge of Photo Treehouse, we will post the CYGNUS winners on this page.

    Click here for the link to the 2018 Cygnus Semi-Finalists.

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

    The deadline for submissions into the 2019 Cygnus Book Awards is May 15, 2019 Midnight (PST).

    Our next Chanticleer International Book Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday, April 18th, 2020, for the 2019 CIBA winners. Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

     

     

  • 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?