The Sourtoe Cocktail is real: a mummified toe in a glass of Yukon Jack, served in Dawson City since 1973. In The Toe, the tradition survives the Collapse - and gets a story of its own.
May 18, 2026
THE TOE: THE YUKON STILL GETS THE LAST WORD
18May
April 9, 2026
PEKWACHNAMAYKOSKWASKWAYPINWANIK LAKE
09April
Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake: 31 letters, the longest place name in Canada, Cree for where the wild trout are caught with hooks. A real Manitoba lake born to anchor a story.
April 9, 2026
FLIN FLON MANITOBA
Flin Flon is a mining town named after a fictional character - and the real geography beneath that oddity is exactly what makes it a natural home for a post-apocalyptic story.
March 6, 2026
MONTRÉAL
06March
The journey begins in Montreal: a city transformed by water, ash, and the machinery of the old world. The first stop in a broken Canada explored one city at a time.
March 4, 2026
THE FEELING OF BEING READY
04March
There's a specific feeling in the body when a manuscript is nearly done. The Lullaby - a song for the last days - is complete, and the end of Book One is finally in sight.
February 20, 2026
POST-APOCALYPTIC LULLABY
20February
The Lullaby of the Last Days is a three‑minute video of AI‑generated imagery and music by Alana Jordan that emerged while searching for a teaser track. It tells of Louise, Una’s dying mother, singing tenderly to her daughter amid a ruined Montreal, embodying the series’ emotional core of the tetralogy of quiet love and resilience.
January 30, 2026
RESO
30January
RESO, a quantum computer that runs Montreal's Underground City, a 30‑kilometer network of tunnels linking metro stations, offices, and shops, optimizes space, resources, food, and population. It models risks and forces outcomes to combat decay and entropy. Because it is stochastic, its results are unpredictable, sometimes causing damage despite its protective intent in practice.
January 30, 2026
THE CAVERN
Beneath Montreal’s Saint‑Léonard borough lies the Caverne de Saint‑Léonard, a limestone cavern first found by a farmer in 1812 and later used as a Patriote hideout. Guided tours now lead visitors into cool, echoing passages that reveal a marine limestone record of ancient seas, reminding us that beneath every surface something older and patient persists.
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.