A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaTHE LONG-TAILED BEAST There are places whose names sound as though they were invented for a story. Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! is one of them. The two exclamation marks are official, and they are part of what makes the Quebec municipality so memorable. Guinness World Records has recognized Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! as the municipality with the most exclamation marks in its name. Yet the name is only the...
MEAT COVE. NOVA SCOTIA. There are places in Canada whose names seem to have been waiting for a horror story. Meat Cove is one of them. At the northernmost tip of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, the road eventually gives up. You leave the Cabot Trail near Cape North, follow the road toward Bay St. Lawrence, and then turn onto Meat Cove Road. The final eight kilometres are unpaved. Beyond them is...
WHERE THE COLD CARRIES SOUND There are places in Canada that seem almost designed for a post-apocalyptic story, even though nothing particularly apocalyptic has happened to them. Snag, Yukon, is one of those places. Located in the far western Yukon, east of Beaver Creek and close to the Alaska border, Snag sits in a remote landscape of boreal forest, frozen ground, creeks and enormous distances...
THE LONGEST NAMED PLACE IN CANADA Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake is a freshwater lake in Manitoba, Canada. Its name is Cree for “where the wild trout are caught by fishing with hooks,” and it holds the record as the longest place name in Canada at 31 letters. The lake is located south of Red Sucker Lake, near the Ontario border, and is known locally for its trout fishing...
A TOWN NAMED AFTER A FICTIONAL CHARACTER Mining History & Environment Origins The emergence of Flin Flon traces back to the early 20th century. Discovery of gold around Amisk Lake in 1910 drew prospectors across Canada, the first major gold find west of the Ontario border since the Klondike. In 1915, pioneer prospectors Tom Creighton and David Collins found the massive Flin Flon copper-zinc...
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.