Description:
A French nurse on a mission to head West across Canada passes through Labrador. She leaves nothing behind but footprints in the snow. Or so she thinks.
In Wabush, the Purification Movement holds that the Light was God’s punishment for the sins of the old world. To prevent another Blinding, they enforce absolute normality among the survivors: humans, animals, plants. Anything that deviates is a blasphemy. They recently hanged a fourteen-year-old girl for having six toes.
Within days of the nurse’s passage, the boreal forest begins to move. Trees that were already changing, already wrong, complete their transformation into something that hunts humans.
And when their hallucinogenic pollen floods the town, it strips away every wall the community’s hidden mutants have ever built, broadcasting what they are to everyone around them.
The Purge already has a rope. What it doesn’t have is a theology for mutated walking spruce trees and the caterpillars that used to feed off them.
The Day of the Chrysalids is a novel set in the Canada of Warriors of the Last Days universe.
Inspired by the work of John Wyndham.
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.