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.
The Yukon skips the setup most survival fiction needs: the distances, winters, and isolation that collapse would create already exist. One of North America's most natural apocalypse settings.
Montreal rarely appears on lists of apocalypse settings, yet it may be the best-suited city in North America: an island with hundreds of kilometres of tunnels and its own underground-fiction tradition.
The road really ends at Meat Cove - the northernmost community in Nova Scotia, and the real setting of a short story arriving this Halloween. Some places seem to wait for a horror story.
Snag, Yukon, still holds North America's coldest recorded temperature: -63 C in 1947. A near-empty settlement at the Alaska border - a place already built for the end of the world.
The Sourtoe Cocktail is real: a mummified toe in a glass of Yukon Jack, served in Dawson City since 1973. In The Toe, the tradition survives the Collapse - and gets a story of its own.
A novel gives you a spine; a short story gives you breath. Starting now, one Warriors of the Last Days short story every month - same world, deeper texture, one place at a time.
Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake: 31 letters, the longest place name in Canada, Cree for where the wild trout are caught with hooks. A real Manitoba lake born to anchor a story.
Vellum makes ePubs nearly frictionless - until you push past a standard novel. Where the tool shines, where it hits its ceiling, and how we format heavily visual short stories.
After years of development, detours, and rewrites, Warriors of the Last Days Book I: The Refusal is ready. ISBNs received, formats locked, and the digital-first launch begins.
The journey begins in Montreal: a city transformed by water, ash, and the machinery of the old world. The first stop in a broken Canada explored one city at a time.
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.