WHERE ATOMS COME HOME TO ROOST At the northern edge of Saskatchewan, on the north shore of Lake Athabasca, there is a community that could hardly be more different from the prairie cities most people associate with the province. Uranium City sits about 724 kilometres northwest of Prince Albert, only 48 kilometres south of the Saskatchewan–Northwest Territories border. There is no all-season road...
Saskatchewan is a province in Western Canada. It is bordered to the west by Alberta, to the north by the Northwest Territories, to the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States (Montana and North Dakota). Saskatchewan and neighbouring Alberta are the only landlocked provinces in Canada. In 2026, Saskatchewan’s population was estimated at 1,266,092. Nearly 10% of Saskatchewan’s total area of 651,900 square kilometres (251,700 sq mi) is fresh water, mostly rivers, reservoirs, and lakes.

Stéphane Roy is a lifelong reader and writer with a deep love for science fiction, apocalyptic worlds, and tightly constructed mysteries. This is his first novel. He lives in the Yukon with his dog and his aquarium, where long winters, silence, and wide, sometimes glowing, skies leave plenty of room for imagining the end of the world, and what might come after it. He is also waiting, with cautious optimism, for the aliens to finally reveal themselves and straighten us all out.