A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear Canada

HAIDA GWAII

HAIDA GWAII
HAIDA GWAII

HAIDA GWAII

When cedar in his shed begins to map a face of its own, an expert carver with more reverence than certainty must reconcile craft, tradition, and a spreading forest intelligence before the waiting pod and the island itself force a reckoning.

Publish Date:
1 Jul, 26
Languages:
  • ENGLISH
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Countries:
  • CANADA
ISBN 13:
9781927431504
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Pages:
25 pages
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1MB
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★★★★★★★★★★
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Age Group:
16+
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James has spent thirty years carving cedar on Haida Gwaii. He knows every scent, every grain line, every hidden flaw a tree can carry. So when a piece of cedar begins to grow a pattern that shouldn’t exist, he notices.

At first it looks like a defect buried deep in the wood. Then he finds the same structure in the roots of an ancient cedar — the same geometry spreading through the forest floor. And offshore, the local orca community begins gathering in numbers no one can explain.

James has a ceremonial transformation mask to finish. A family is waiting. The deadline is real. But beneath the surface of the cedar, something is building. Something that may already know how to speak.

Set among the old-growth forests and coastal waters of Haida Gwaii, and within the Warriors of the Last Days universe, this is a short story about a carver who goes looking for a flaw and finds something else entirely.

Reader's Review:

The cedar grain dividing into an organized branching pattern with nodes that read "more like a circuit than a root," the inner face already forming a face before James cuts it ("the wood had a face before I touched it"), his decision to carve the ancestor face over the network's face rather than fight it, and the closing pivot from "this is what we protect" to "the cedar bore its own story", but the journal format wins on texture and loses on arc (five sections accumulate detail but the emotional turn is all in the last few lines), the Orca-counting is haunting but only loosely integrated into the plot, and the Light itself stays an abstraction that James observes but the scene never makes you feel.

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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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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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