
BISMUTH
by: STÉPHANE C. ROY
- ENGLISH
- CANADA
Description:
After a storm, a mysterious bottle washes ashore, carrying a handwritten account from a forgotten community in Germany’s Ore Mountains.
Written by an elderly survivor in a language learned from old books, the testimony recounts the history of a mining valley, its generations of workers, and the strange legacy left by the mountain they called home. As the world beyond collapsed, an unlikely inheritance of knowledge, ingenuity, and deception would shape the fate of those who remained.
Years later, the bottle reaches an unknown reader, carrying a message across time and distance from a place the world has forgotten.
Some stories are worth telling. Some truths are worth preserving. And some blessings travel farther than anyone could imagine.
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Author Details:
STÉPHANE C. ROY
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.
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QUADRUPED
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MOLYBDENUM
THE OLD HAG
COLE’S TYPE
THE NEWLYWEDS
GOING POSTAL
COLE’S TRAIN
COLE’S CALL
THE HEARTBREAK
COLE’S WAY
WHITE RAVEN
THE STONE
DEFROCKED
SANDRINE
THE HONEYMOON
THE STEPMOTHER
THE MOTHER
THE KRAKEN
THE BUCCANEERS
THE ANCHOR
THE HOLY SEA
THE SIREN
POST-MARKED: MAIL ORDER BRIDES
POST-MORTEM
COLE’S TIME
COLE’S SHOULDER
COLE’S RUN
SHIELDS OF THE NORTH
VICTORIA, NEWFOUNDLAND
VICTORIA ISLAND
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA
POST-DATED
THE DIVE
THE STORM
THE TARGET
THE DRAINING
THE RED HILLS
THE SHIELD
ALERT
NEON WINTER
THE LONG-TAILED BEAST
COLE’S GIRL
COLE’S POND
COLE’S FEAR
THE RIDE
PIE IN THE SKY
THE DATE
ANTIBIOTIC ITERATION
NIGHT OF THE LIVING TOES
THE WALLED CITY
THE TREK
DISCOLOURATION
THE NETWORK
OGOPOGO/N’HA-A-ITK
MOKSGM’OL
HAIDA GWAII
SOPHISM
THE ORPHAN
THE NURSE
THE BRIDGE
RED
THE HILL
THE FLESHING
THE DAM BUILDERS
VICTORIA-BY-THE-SEA
THE SPUD
THE FAMINE
THE QALUPALIK
THE KINGZ DAUGHTERS
TIRED
SAINTE-ANNE
THE SILENCE
THE BORE
ULRIC THE GREAT
CRITICAL WEATHER REPORT
THE SEWER
THE CARRIONS
BAD DAY
CORNY
THE APOTHECARY
SOPH
DEAD WATER
THE WHALE
TUCKER
SANDRINE’S CROSSING
IJIRAIT: TOO FAR NORTH
SUNLESS CITY
THE EXPECTED
FLIN FLON’S HOLE
TOWING THE LINE
THE SAHTUGOT
ADLIVUN
MEAT COVE
TRIOXIDE
COBB
NOMI
CLARENCE
THE STILLNESS
REGINA: QUEEN CITY
THE LEGACY
SPECIAL DELIVERY
RIBS
THE HUNGER
THE WOLF
THE VALLEY
BERNA
THE SECRET
THE COLONEL
ZONING WARS
THANKSGIVING APPERCEPTION
THE PEN PUSHERS
THE LULLABY
THE CARVER & THE STONE
HEADING WEST
RENÉE FROM THE SUMP
THE PENGUINS
THE SUB
OSMIUM
THE TOE
GLOOSCAP: THE AWAKENING
THE SHEPHERDESS
LIGHTS OUT
ANTITHESES
EASTERN LIGHT
THE DAM
WATERLAND
THE MAILMAN
COLE’S LAW
THE WEDDING
THE DELIVERY
THE BUNKER
SHALLOW GRAVE
THE CHEMIST
THE MISSION
ENGORGED
FUNGI
OF MARSH AND MEN: CHIGNECTO SEA
A MARI USQUE AD MARE COMPILATION IV
THE LONG LIGHT
THE TRAIL
COLE’S WAR
DOMINION OF DAMNATION
POTATO WARS
THE LONG WALK: STEEL MIGRATION
ICE-GRITTERS
SLIMED
CORNERED
THE MALL
FOG-BLEEDERS
TALES OF THE LAST DAYS VOLUME I
THE FINAL QUARTET
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A MARI USQUE AD MARE COMPILATION III
A MARI USQUE AD MARE COMPILATION II
A MARI USQUE AD MARE CYCLE I COMPILATION
LAST PROTOCOL
MILE ZERO
THE MAID
COLD STORAGE
THE FRONT
THE LAST ISLANDS
DEATH ROW
TETRALOGY BUNDLE
THE SPARK
DAY OF THE CHRYSALIDS
IRON SHEPHERDS
THE DRIFT
THE EXODUS




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.