A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaScience Fiction (Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic) explores futures shaped by collapse, control, and consequence. These stories unfold in societies transformed by nuclear war, ecological disaster, technological overreach, surveillance regimes, and engineered systems of order. Whether civilization has fallen outright or calcified into rigid institutional control, the genre examines what humanity becomes under extreme pressure.
Dystopian science fiction focuses on structured oppression — optimized cities, algorithmic governance, bureaucratic power, and surveillance infrastructures that redefine freedom. Post-apocalyptic fiction moves through the aftermath: fractured landscapes, reclaimed territories, hostile environments, and fragile communities rebuilding amid scarcity and memory.
Together, these narratives blend speculative world-building with psychological and moral tension. They question authority, adaptation, resilience, and the cost of survival in controlled or broken worlds. From intimate character-driven resistance to large-scale systemic collapse, this category brings together science fiction that confronts power, consequence, and the future of human identity.
Explore stories where the end of one world becomes the proving ground for another.
SHORT STORIES: THE TALES OF THE LAST DAYS Canada is a vast country with a short memory. But it now has short stories! These short stories remember. Set in every province and territory, each short stories are rooted in the specific history, geography, and mythology of the place it inhabits. Warriors of the Last Days, its novels and short stories, are building a Canadian mythology that does not...
REVIEWS & TESTIMONIALS THE REFUSALTHE EXODUSTHE DRIFTTHE SPARK What our readers say about The Refusal “This is a high-concept, brutal, and intellectually honest piece of speculative fiction. It feels like “The Handmaid’s Tale” directed by David Cronenberg inside a Borg Cube.” I loved reading this. It is ambitious, original, and humane in the middle of systems...
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Sample Questions and Answers QUESTIONS What was the initial ‘spark’ or image that started this story? Good question! The first image that ever came to me about this story, back when it was the germ of an idea, was the mushroom shaped splashing tear from the prologue. It stayed with me for decades. Managed to put it in a film, not to the extent I would have like, then put it back in...
WARRIORS OF THE LAST DAYS POST-APOCALYPTIC SERIES Warriors of the Last Days is a dystopian post-apocalyptic speculative fiction series set in a devastated Canada, with each city revealing a different face of collapse, adaptation, and control, often in relation to their local specificity and history. It explores the people and communities that remain: how they adapted to catastrophe, how they...
CITIES & LOCATIONS Across the ruins of Canada, the cities of Warriors of the Last Days stand as islands of fragile order in a continent that has largely fallen silent. Each one is different. Some cling to old infrastructure and bureaucratic systems that survived the collapse. Others are fortified enclaves built around resources, trade routes, or sheer necessity. A few have become strange...
BOOKS EXCERPTS CHAPTERS Select the title of the novel you want to read the first chapter as a book excerpts. THE REFUSALTHE EXODUSTHE DRIFTTHE SPARK CHAPTER 1 (EXCERPT) WEBSITE OTHER SUPPLIERS CHAPTER 1 (EXCERPT) BACKGROUND TREMOR Andy knew the Sump best through the soles of his boots.The mud softened in the same spots, planks creaked underfoot, the Décarie River scraped against the concrete...
MONTRÉAL, CITY OF THE LAST DAYS Warriors of the Last Days unfolds in a post-nuclear Canada, a fractured landscape where cities, highways, and forgotten infrastructure have been reshaped by a post-nuclear collapse. What remains of the country is scattered across isolated settlements, drifting communities, and territories claimed by the ruins themselves. The series follows the slow rediscovery of...
Glossary of Key Terms Our Glossary presents key terms in the universe of Warriors of the Last Days. We tried to give you a description of what matters for each novels. THE REFUSALTHE EXODUSTHE DRIFTTHE SPARKWASTELANDS Acedian The Acedian refers to a massive, gelatinous entity inhabiting the submerged Beaudy metro station, symbolizing ultimate stagnation and dissolution. It lures victims with a...
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.