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.
In Nova Scotia, collapse rearranges society along the coast. Maritime storms, tides, and fragile supply lines compress survival into fishing villages and forested interior towns.
In Newfoundland and Labrador, collapse concentrates rather than scatters. Weather-beaten outport communities, sea routes, and fragile local systems make isolation the baseline condition.
In Nunavut, the question isn't how to rebuild civilization - the people on the land never left. When southern systems disappear, survival knowledge that predates them stays.
The Northwest Territories runs on winter roads and air lifts across hundreds of kilometres. When those fragile systems fail, breakdown isn't a distant scenario - it's immediate.
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! holds a Guinness record for exclamation marks - and enough history and geography to need no apocalypse at all. The real place behind a Warriors of the Last Days story.
When the guards stop coming and the trucks stop arriving, the prison remains - a fortress, siege castle, and laboratory for human behaviour all at once. Why prisons are the genre's most underused setting.
Cold Storage's first draft is finished - the eighth novel, set in Dawson City under a strange purple aurora. With it, every novel scheduled for the series' first two years has a completed draft.
Twenty-five kilometres off Newfoundland sits France's last North American territory - windswept islands with centuries of maritime history and almost no post-apocalyptic fiction. A setting waiting to be used.
The Story Atlas is live: an interactive map of every location in Warriors of the Last Days - 35 places across every province and territory, and 59 stories with more on the way.
Saskatchewan rarely makes post-apocalyptic lists. It should: enormous distances, harsh weather, sparse population, and open land where danger is visible hours before it arrives.
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.