A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaWhy 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...
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...
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...
Stories from Canada’s Arctic When people think of post-apocalyptic fiction, they often imagine ruined cities, abandoned highways, and crumbling skyscrapers. Canada’s Arctic offers something entirely different. Vast tundra, endless winter nights, isolated settlements, and a culture that has survived one of the harshest environments on Earth create a setting where the apocalypse feels less like the...
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...
CANADIAN APOCALYPSE: PROVINCES,TERRITORIES & CITIES Post-apocalypse in Canada, especially in the arctic and the prairies, has been broached a surprising amount of time in various media. That being said, considering the sheer size of the country, we certainly could do better. In these curated posts, we explore the various provinces, territories and Canadian cities where disaster has already...
THE APOCALYPSE IN NOVA SCOTIA Post-apocalyptic fiction in Nova Scotia uses the province’s Atlantic coastline, maritime weather systems, and tightly clustered rural-urban geography to shape stories of collapse and recovery. Unlike vast inland wastelands, Nova Scotia’s environment compresses survival into coastal towns, fishing villages, and forested interiors where weather, tides, and supply lines...
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.