A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaA dystopia is an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives. It is an imagined place in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Dystopia is widely seen as the opposite of utopia – a concept coined by Thomas More in 1516 to describe an ideal society. Both topias are common topics in fiction. Dystopia is also referred to as cacotopia or anti-utopia.
Frozen Worlds: Exploring Post-Apocalyptic Fiction in Nunavut A remote coastal community set against a backdrop of snow-covered mountains. The Arctic has always occupied a unique place in the imagination of writers. Vast, isolated, and often unforgiving, Canada’s North offers a setting unlike any other for post-apocalyptic fiction. In Nunavut, where communities are separated by immense distances...
COLD STORAGE TEASER TRAILER WHAT IS COLD STORAGE? Cold Storage is a Christmas novel set in Yukon 30 years after the Apocalypse. We did a teaser trailer for the novel, which deals with a particularly harrowing Christmas Eve during a strange, proton heavy, aurora borealis event that awakens deceased pioneers buried deep in permafrost for nearly two centuries. This being Yukon, the usual rules do...
DOMINION OF DAMNATION: A WARRIORS OF THE LAST DAYS SUB-SERIES The Dominion Logistics Command manages a vast network of supply routes to distribute antibiotics across the post-nuclear landscape. Dominion of Damnation is a sub series in the A mari usque ad mare storyline itself, because of its sheer ambition: distributing an antibiotic across the entire radioactive wastelands of Canada, into each...
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Post-Apocalyptic Fiction in the Northwest Territories A view of a post-apocalyptic Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, under a dramatic sunset. The Northwest Territories (NWT) offers one of the most compelling natural settings for post-apocalyptic fiction in North America. Its vast distances, sparse population, extreme seasonal cycles, and dependence on long and fragile supply chains create...
THE REFUSAL PAPER VERSIONS Well, the final print editions, the paper versions we’re genuinely happy with and proud of, have been a long time coming. It turns out publishing a paperback isn’t nearly as simple as it sounds. There are countless small details that only become obvious once you’ve gone through the process yourself. First, there’s the spine. The number of pages affects its width, of...
Locked In After the End of the World:Post-Apocalypse Stories Set in Prisons and Canadian Jails Prisons are already worlds unto themselves. They possess their own hierarchies, economies, rules, myths, and systems of power. Walls separate inmates from society, routines govern every aspect of life, and survival often depends as much on social intelligence as physical strength. Now imagine that...
FIRST TWO YEARS OF NOVEL DRAFTS COMPLETED The Latest Milestone: Cold Storage First Draft Finished Today marks a significant achievement in the Warriors of the Last Days universe: the first draft of Cold Storage, the eighth novel in our sprawling Canadian post-apocalyptic series, is now complete. Set in the frozen wilds of Yukon, this Christmas-themed survival horror sees the return of fan...
Post-Apocalypse Stories in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon:France’s Last Islands at the End of the World When readers imagine post-apocalyptic fiction, they usually picture sprawling American ruins, abandoned highways, or shattered megacities. Rarely do they think about a tiny French archipelago sitting in the North Atlantic, just off the coast of Newfoundland. They should. But as far as we know and...
A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear Canada
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.