A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaPost-nuclear skies, ash-covered cities, and creatures that shouldn’t exist. This is what apocalypse looks like in the world of Warriors of the Last Days.
The Post-Apocalyptic Lullaby That Started Everything Before the spark. Before the resistance. Before any of it, there was a song. A Lullaby.The world in Warriors of the Last Days is post-nuclear Montreal stripped to its bones: ashen skies, System towers, creatures that shouldn’t exist, and people learning to survive inside the ruins of everything they used to know. It is not a gentle world...
PROLOGUE TO A PROLOGUE TEASER Some scenes write themselves as film long before anyone points a camera at them. The prologue to Warriors of the Last Days was always one of those scenes. Two men. A bunker. A command that can’t be taken back. I knew from the moment I wrote it that it wanted […]
Making the Teaser That Nearly Broke Us When we began work on the teaser for The Spark, we expected intensity. We did not expect resistance. Book IV of Warriors of the Last Days is about ignition: pressure accumulated over three volumes finally finding flame. It felt only right that its teaser would burn hotter, move faster, strike deeper. Instead, we stalled. The iconic Montreal Olympic Stadium...
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Why This TEASER Trailer for the Drift Felt Different Of the three teasers we’ve created so far for Warriors of the Last Days, The Drift was the easiest. And the most fun. Not because it was simpler. Because it was looser. You can watch the teaser here: THE DRIFT TRAILER The Refusal required precision. It introduced the philosophy: engineered ritual, structural obedience, institutional control...
CHARACTERS BOOK III: THE DRIFT BOOK I CHARACTERS BOOK II CHARACTERS BOOK IV CHARACTERS WANT TO KNOW MORE? UNA In The Drift, Una is no longer the child who watched systems close in around her. She is a woman shaped by movement: by roads that never end, by wind that never settles, by structures that adapt faster than the people trying to escape them. The Stadium taught her how control looks when it...
Inside Book II of Warriors of the Last Days When we began building the teaser trailer for Exodus, Book II of Warriors of the Last Days, we knew it had to feel different from The Refusal trailer. Book I was containment: corridors, ritual, engineered obedience. Exodus is movement. You can watch the teaser trailer here: THE EXODUS TRAILER Expanding the World Beyond the Stadium The first trailer...
We Had 90 Seconds to Explain a World That Took Years to Build. When we started designing the first trailer for The Refusal, we faced a problem: How do you explain a philosophy in a minute and a half? Not just a plot. Not just characters. A worldview. Watch it here: THE REFUSAL TRAILER The Ink Was Never Just Ink The spreading black forms in the trailer’s text portions aren’t decoration. They...
DYSTOPIAN TROPES FOR BOOK IV: THE SPARK BOOK I TROPES BOOK II TROPES BOOK III TROPES WANT TO KNOW MORE? CORE STRUCTURAL TROPE SET The Spark of Difference A small, unstable shift becomes the only possible change agent — not revolution, but variance within rules. Reorientation Crisis Protagonist(s) confront a systemic discontinuity that forces reassessment of survival logic. Emergent Pattern A...
DYSTOPIAN TROPES OF BOOK III: THE DRIFT BOOK I TROPES BOOK II TROPES BOOK IV TROPES WANT TO KNOW MORE? CORE STRUCTURAL TROPES FOR BOOK III 1. After the Escape The story that happens after the break. The exodus already occurred. There is no triumphant arrival. 2. Motion Without Destination Movement continues, but without a promised land. Travel is maintenance, not progress. 3. The Dissolving...
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.