THE EXODUS
ADVANCE READER COPY: THE EXODUS
Montreal is breaking open.
RESO failed in ways no one fully mapped, The Sump is under siege and the structures that held the city's survivors in place are no longer holding. A group pushed west by the collapse is now moving through terrain that doesn't recognize them: ruined infrastructure, flooded lowlands, mutated ecologies, and systems that have found quieter, more efficient ways to consume people.
The Exodus follows the arc of that crossing: from the last familiar ground through the Décarie trench, through the Sump, and toward Francon, a limestone quarry community built on a chemical bargain with the land, where survival has its own calendar and its own cost.
This is not a story about rescue. The destination doesn't promise safety. It promises structure: which is the thing, in this world, that people can be made to need almost as badly as air.
Readers of The Refusal will find threads that continued after Una left. Readers coming to the series here will find a complete arc, set in a world that earns its bleakness rather than wearing it as atmosphere.
Series: Warriors of the Last Days | Reading order position: Book II of IV
The Exodus Comparables: literary post-apocalyptic fiction with procedural dread, systemic horror, and restrained prose: readers of Cormac McCarthy, Emily St. John Mandel, and Paul Tremblay.
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.