A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaShort Stories: The Warriors of the Last Days universe is also composed of 72 short stories, released monthly, that either complement, enrich or otherwise connect to to the novels or add to the mythology of the Post-Apocalypse Canada.
Why the Saguenay Fjord Is Perfect for a Post-Apocalyptic Story There are places in Canada that look as though they were made for a post-apocalyptic story. The Saguenay Fjord is one of them. Long before I began writing about the aftermath of the Light, I was fascinated by the idea of taking a landscape that already feels immense and isolated and asking what happens when the systems that connect it...
Post-Apocalyptic Quebec City: The Fortress at the Edge of the Water Most post-apocalyptic fiction treats language as a given. Quebec cannot. French and English coexist here under a formal framework that most of the rest of North America does not have. That means a collapse scenario in Quebec has to contend with a place where language was already a public fact, not a private choice. What happens...
Meat Cove is the October short story in the Warriors of the Last Days series, a standalone horror story set in the real Meat Cove, Nova Scotia, after the Apocalypse. Free for subscribers, $0.99 on Kobo.
British Columbia After the End: Why the West Coast Makes Such a Powerful APOCALYPSE Setting British Columbia is almost unfairly well suited to post-apocalyptic fiction. Few places in Canada offer such a dramatic collision of environments in such a relatively small geographic area: a dense Pacific metropolis, enormous forests, mountain ranges, isolated islands, remote coastal communities...
WHERE ATOMS COME HOME TO ROOST At the northern edge of Saskatchewan, on the north shore of Lake Athabasca, there is a community that could hardly be more different from the prairie cities most people associate with the province. Uranium City sits about 724 kilometres northwest of Prince Albert, only 48 kilometres south of the Saskatchewan–Northwest Territories border. There is no all-season road...
The Badlands, the Rockies, and the End of the World When imagining the end of the world in Canada, Alberta offers something remarkably few other provinces can match: almost every version of the apocalypse already exists within its borders. There are enormous modern cities, isolated farming communities, oil fields, industrial infrastructure, mountain wilderness, boreal forest, prairie, badlands...
Post-Apocalyptic Manitoba: Stories from the Red River to Flin Flon Manitoba is easy to overlook when people imagine the end of the world. Popular post-apocalyptic fiction tends to gravitate toward familiar places: abandoned American cities, irradiated deserts, ruined highways, drowned coastlines, or forests reclaiming the remains of civilization. Canada gets its share of attention, but even...
APOCALYPSE IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND Post-apocalyptic fiction in Prince Edward Island (PEI) shifts the genre away from continental scale collapse and toward something more intimate, constrained, and socially dense. On an island where geography already imposes limits on movement, resources, and expansion, the end of modern systems does not create vast wastelands so much as it intensifies...
APOCALYPSE IN NEW BRUNSWICK Post-apocalyptic fiction in New Brunswick draws its strength from the province’s Atlantic coastline, river systems, and dense interior forests. It is a landscape defined by transition: between land and sea, urban centers and rural isolation, resource corridors and quiet communities. In collapse scenarios, these transitions become fault lines where survival is...
EXPLORE THE HAIDA GWAII ISLANDS Haida Gwaii is an archipelago of more than 150 islands off the northern coast of British Columbia, separated from the mainland by Hecate Strait. The name means “Islands of the People” in Haida. For much of the colonial period, the islands were known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, a name that has largely given way to the name used by the Haida themselves. The...
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.