A MARI USQUE AD MARE

A MARI USQUE AD MARE: STORIES ACROSS CANADA

A Mari usque ad Mare follows the years after the Light through dozens of interconnected stories set across Canada and one in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. From isolated Arctic communities to the Atlantic coast, from collapsing cities to forgotten highways and remote settlements, each tale reveals how ordinary people confront the same catastrophe in radically different ways.

Together, these narratives form a living mosaic of a country breaking apart, adapting, and beginning to rebuild, showing that while every community experiences the end of the world differently, they all become part of the same larger history.

A MARI USQUE AD MARE CYCLE I

A woman with long hair carrying a shotgun stands before a tall concrete wall topped with barbed wire and a guard tower in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Book cover for The Last Islands by Stéphane C. Roy, featuring a dark, misty coastal village scene.

Book cover for The Front, featuring giant insects swarming over a post-apocalyptic cityscape with a bridge and smoke-filled sky.

Book cover for Cold Storage by Stéphane C. Roy, featuring a snowy, deserted street under a vibrant purple aurora borealis.

We tried to break down each cycle with 2 novels set in the eastern province and/or territory and 2 in western province and/or territories.

A MARI USQUE AD MARE CYCLE II

A person in a gas mask and heavy winter gear stands in a snowy landscape holding a large, mechanical scythe-like weapon.

A dystopian book cover showing three people looking toward a post-apocalyptic industrial facility in a snowy landscape, with towering spiky creatures in the background.

A lone figure stands on the deck of a sailing ship at sunset, with a modified Canadian flag featuring a heart symbol flying above.

A man and woman stand face-to-face in a ruined city with a mushroom cloud rising in the background, under the title Mile Zero.

Every novel is connected to the overall universe, be it via other novels themselves or through interconnected short stories. What you read in one story can pop back later, sometimes years, in another story. Each cycle is linked.

While the west deals with various incarnations of both internal and external war. In the east, this cycle deals with the water ways.

A MARI USQUE AD MARE CYCLE III

A dark, gritty book cover featuring a person in a beanie and jacket reaching out with a bloodied, bandaged hand amidst yellow fog, with the title Fog-Bleeders and author Stéphane C. Roy visible.

A giant ear of corn looms over a desolate, post-apocalyptic cityscape with smoke rising from ruins under a dark, cloudy sky.

A person is partially submerged in a thick, bubbling pink substance in front of a clock tower and a coastal city landscape.

Except for few exceptions, most characters interact over time and meet, either in their own province or territory, or sometimes across the entire country.

A MARI USQUE AD MARE CYCLE IV

Book cover for Ice Gritters featuring a person in a hood covered in ice against a dark red background.

A woman in rugged post-apocalyptic attire stands in a snowy landscape holding a large axe, with a gas mask hanging at her side.

A person in a small motorboat navigates through debris-filled waters toward a fleet of ships at sunset, as depicted on a dystopian novel cover.

Book cover art for Warriors of the Last Days: Glooscap: The Awakening by Stéphane C. Roy, featuring a weathered, glowing-eyed figure emerging from darkness.

A terrifying weather based story set in New-Brunswick, a newly minted shepherdess must prove her valour in the fjord of Saguenay, a dormant creature sleeping in the depth of the Hudson Bay threatens to awaken, a man named Gil must bring the fungi sample containing what might be a cure for the Rot to a chemist in Fredericton, launching the events of the Dominion of Damnation sub series.

Four survivors stand before a rugged, Canadian-marked all-terrain vehicle in a desolate post-nuclear landscape.

A man in a dirty red jumpsuit leans against a large truck on a desolate, snowy road under a vibrant aurora borealis.

A man and a woman in rugged winter gear stand in a snowy landscape with a dog sled team, featured on the book cover for The Long Light by Stéphane C. Roy.

A woman in a black mask and tactical gear steers a wooden boat through stormy waters past shipwrecks.

The Dominion of Damnation arc… It has its own page and share the theme all across the country. The main thematic is stronger than the “across Canada from one sea to the other thematic” but both apply to those books. They are a completely different vibe, a bit like the Montreal bookends series.

It is a series within the series.

A technical blueprint for Project Babylon labeled with Potato Wars, featuring a diagram of a long-barreled cannon and a single potato resting on the desk.

A group of people in rugged, hooded cloaks walk away from the viewer down a cracked, snow-covered highway toward a distant horizon, passing a road sign pointing toward Toronto.

A person with a backpack stands on a snowy cliff overlooking a large dam in a desolate, post-nuclear landscape.

A group of seven diverse characters in a desert landscape with a large armored vehicle, looking at a map on the ground, with the title Warriors of the Last Days: Cole's Tale above them.

A MARI USQUE AD MARE CYCLE V

The Shepherds migrating from all corners of the country towards Montreal, Cole encountering his homonym, James the Carver and Marvin Robinson, all comparing note about the Mycelium and coming to the exact same conclusion: Time to head out east… And on PEI, a pre-Light already mutated potato called the Babylon is perhaps the solution that will save the island from starvation, but only if Greg Mckintosh can keep some greedy paws away long enough to give the tuber a chance…

A Mari usque ad Mare Cycle VI

A man in a long coat stands over a woman amidst post-apocalyptic ruins with a gothic cathedral in the background, holding a glass aloft.

A man and a woman in worn, rugged clothing walk through a desolate, snow-covered street while a hand reaches out to offer them letters.

A man and a woman in heavy, snow-covered winter gear stand close together in a snowy landscape with an igloo in the background.

A circular, fortified settlement built on water, featuring a central island with a small house, surrounded by a ring of makeshift structures and towers, with the title Waterland and author name visible.

These four novels wrap up all the events set in motion in Dominion of Damnation with all four groups and set the stage for the grand finale in the second Montreal Bookend.