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April 28, 2026
THE EXCOMMUNICATION
28April
Post-Apocalyptic Montreal reimagines the city after systemic collapse — where winter lingers longer than it should, infrastructure mutates into fortresses, and neighborhoods become isolated enclaves shaped by scarcity and memory. In these stories, familiar landmarks stand altered: the skyline fractured, the river encroaching, transit tunnels repurposed, institutional architecture hardened into instruments of control or survival.
This category explores survival in a northern metropolis marked by nuclear fallout, ecological instability, technological overreach, or bureaucratic optimization. Microclimates distort once-stable districts. Communities reorganize around resources, ideology, and territory. Power concentrates in unexpected places — stadiums, quarries, towers, underground corridors — while ordinary citizens navigate shifting alliances, ration systems, and the psychological cost of endurance.
Blending dystopian structure with post-apocalyptic landscape, these narratives examine resilience, authority, resistance, and the fragile persistence of culture in a city that refuses to disappear. Montreal becomes more than a setting; it becomes a pressure system — testing loyalty, memory, and what it means to rebuild in the shadow of collapse.
Explore fiction where the end of one Montreal reveals the fault lines of the next.
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.