Homo sapiens have died out and the Neanderthals became the dominant intelligent species. This powerful idea allows Sawyer to examine some of the deeply rooted assumptions of contemporary human civilization dramatically, by confronting us with another civilization.

Now, in Hybrids, Ponter Boddit and his Homo sapien lover, geneticist Mary Vaughan, are torn between two worlds, struggling to find a way to make their star-crossed relationship work. Aided by banned Neanderthal technology, they plan to conceive the first hybrid child, a symbol of hope for the joining of their two versions of reality.

Includes short fiction, speeches, essays and articles. Introduction by Mike Resnick. Eight stories, four speeches, eleven articles, twelve columns and biographical and bibliographical information.

Archaeologist Brandon Thackeray and his rival, Miles "Klicks" Jordan, use his time-ship to travel back to the age of the dinosaurs and discovers the truth about their extinction and uncover a truth beyond the scope of any scientific theory involving some mysterious blue creatures from Mars.

Searching for the truth behind the death of his ex-wife, Aaron Rossman uncovers a terrible secret aboard the close confines of a colonization spaceship on a voyage to Eta Cephei IV, a distant earth-like world.

The tales gathered in Iterations have been nominated for the Hugo and Bram Stoker Awards, and have won the Aurora Award the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award, and France's top SF award, Le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire. Each story is prefaced by Sawyer's account of its genesis, and the collection as a whole is introduced by acclaimed science-fiction writer James Alan Gardner.

Heather Davis is shocked by an accusation of child sexual abuse against her husband. When she breaks through to the fourth dimension and the Overmind, she is able to prove to her daughter that Kyle is innocent and that Becky is the victim of a cruel psychologist.

When aliens land in Toronto, they present astounding evidence that their planet and Earth have experienced the same cataclysmic events--evidence that they claim proves the existence of God.

In a world where the age of dinosaurs never ended, the young saurian Afsan becomes apprentice to the court astrologer, when he discovers something about the Face of God that will test his faith and may save his world from disaster.