A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaUranium City, a remote northern Saskatchewan settlement on Lake Athabasca, grew rapidly as a planned community built around the 1950s Cold War uranium boom. After the mines closed in the 1980s, the town persisted, remembered as a mining hub and environmental remediation site, and appears in the fiction series Warriors of the Last Days.
OF MARSH AND MEN: CHIGNECTO SEA CREATURES ASHEN WILLOW Not a creature, but a deadly hybrid. These mutated trees survive entirely submerged with only their weeping, grey branches breaking the surface. Their roots feed on the high radiation of the mud, and their hanging vines secrete a sticky, paralytic sap. If a boat gets tangled in them, the vines slowly tighten as the current pulls against the...
IRON SHEPHERDS CREATURE The Iron Shepherds story does not contain a lot of creatures but the one it does have is properly terrifying. SIRENS OF THE SILT They were geese before the Light, Canada geese, the kind that used to fill the Manitoba sky every autumn in numbers a man could set his calendar by. They didn’t survive the fallout so much as answer it. What came back doesn’t migrate anymore. It...
CREATURES FROM THE DRIFT NOVEL BOOK I CREATURES BOOK II CREATURES BOOK IV CREATURES The Drift novel probably features some of the strangest creatures in the entire Warriors of the Lat Days universe. From blue Coyotes to Comsic horror creatures literally so big they disappear into the clouds, for a variation of the infamous Montreal melon that does not take well to being picked to giant...
THE CREATURE FROM THE LAST ISLANDS NOVEL There is only one creature in this novel but its presence will be felt, directly or indirectly, throught the entire Warriors of the Last Days series. The story of its arrival is told in the Last Islands. THE PLASMOID Its origin is mysterious. It occurred after the Light. It landed on the French islands of St-Pierre and Miquelon, near Newfoundland. It looks...
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! holds a Guinness record for exclamation marks - and enough history and geography to need no apocalypse at all. The real place behind a Warriors of the Last Days story.
The road really ends at Meat Cove - the northernmost community in Nova Scotia, and the real setting of a short story arriving this Halloween. Some places seem to wait for a horror story.
There are not a lot of creatures in Exodus, the second novel, but when they do show up and their presence is definitely felt strongly and impact the story significantly. From the creatures already presented in Book I (Crawfish, Glowers, Roachers) to one of the strangest beings in the entire tetralogy, the Exodus creatures might be few but they are terrifying nonetheless. We do a lot of research...
BOOK I: THE REFUSAL CREATURES BOOK II CREATURES BOOK III CREATURES BOOK IV CREATURES GREY MUTANTS The Grey Mutants are human beings warped by prolonged exposure to the Hive pressure, industrial runoff, and the poisoned ecosystems spreading through the ruins of Montréal. Their skin takes on pale grey tones mottled with mineral growths, chemical burns, or fungal lesions, while their bodies adapt...
CREATURES APPEARANCES A lone survivor stands before a colossal entity rising above the ruins of the Jacques Cartier Bridge in Montreal. Across the four books of the Montreal series, the creatures are not random horrors, they are symptoms. Step into each volume to discover the specific creatures that inhabit its terrain and the logic that brought them into being. BOOK I: THE REFUSAL BOOK III: THE...
A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear Canada
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.