The first book of his Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, Hominids (2002), is set in a near-future society, in which a quantum computing experiment brings a Neanderthal scientist from a parallel Earth to ours. Like many science fiction-writers, Sawyer welcomes the opportunities his chosen genre provides for exploring ideas. Reviewers praise Sawyer for his concise prose, which has been compared to that of the science-fiction master Isaac Asimov. His 1995 award winning The Terminal Experiment confirmed his place as a major international science-fiction writer.Ī prolific writer, Sawyer has published more than 10 novels, plus two trilogies. In the early 1990s Sawyer went on to publish his inventive Quintaglio Ascension trilogy, about a world of intelligent dinosaurs. This book won the Aurora Award for the best Canadian science-fiction novel in English.

Sawyer's first published book, Golden Fleece (1989), is an adaptation of short stories that had previously appeared in the science-fiction magazine Amazing Stories. Sawyer graduated in 1982 from the Radio and Television Arts Program at Ryerson University, where he later worked as an instructor. He began writing science fiction in a high school club, which he co-founded, NASFA (Northview Academy Association of Science Fiction Addicts). He claims to have watched the 1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey 25 times. Sawyer was obsessed with outer space from a young age, and he vividly remembers watching the televised Apollo missions. He credits two of his favourite shows from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Search and Star Trek, with teaching him some of the fundamentals of the science-fiction craft. Robert Sawyer grew up in Toronto, the son of two university professors. He is the only Canadian (and one of only 7 writers in the world) to have won all three of the top international awards for science fiction: the 1995 Nebula Award for The Terminal Experiment, the 2003 Hugo Award for Hominids, and the 2006 John W. Sawyer is one of Canada's best known and most successful science fiction writers.

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