The world did not end. It hardened.
WARRIORS OF THE LAST DAYS
A post-apocalyptic fiction series set across a shattered Canada.
Begin with The Refusal
Montréal survived the Collapse by becoming smaller, colder, and crueler.
Inside the Olympic Stadium, survival has become ritual. Una, taken from the cave where she was raised, is branded Eighty-Four and forced through ordeals designed to crush souls.
The Refusal is where the Montréal story begins: a dark, deeply human novel about survival, identity, and the quiet forms of resistance that remain when every system demands obedience.
The series begins here.
THE REFUSAL REVIEWS
THE TOE REVIEWS
The wolverine won on points!
The hardware-store calendar, the Yukon logic of “What is the situation? What are the options? What do you do next?”, the Sourdough Saloon’s toe-drinking oath, the wolverine cache with the toe wrapped in a piece of Edouard’s own boot, and the hair in the whisky that lets Edouard say “The wolverine had won on points” and quietly ask for another, but the Sourdough Saloon’s room gets less texture than its ritual, and the hair twist, though earned, is the one note that doesn’t quite need to be there.
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When a weary drifter follows a direction and finds Meat Cove, a man who has spent his life noticing patterns must decide whether to accept the village’s generous hospitality or resist becoming the next recorded visitor the sea requires.
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.