A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaWe 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...
DISCOVER OUR MAIN CHARACTERS BOOK BY BOOK Across thirty-two novels (eventually), the story is carried not by archetypes, but by people under pressure. Explore the characters pages to trace how each life intersects with power, belief, and the fragile architecture of survival. WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS CHARACTER PAGE? Survivors, believers, strategists, dissenters, enforcers, leaders… Each...
ADVANCE READER COPY PROGRAM The protagonists journey through a devastated Montreal, marked by elemental powers, a central theme of the post-nuclear series. WHO IS THIS FOR? Warriors of the Last Days is a four-book post-apocalyptic series set in Montreal, years after a nuclear event has fractured society into competing factions held together by protocol, fear, and memory. The story follows people...
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...
DYSTOPIAN TROPES OF BOOK II: THE EXODUS BOOK I TROPES BOOK III TROPES BOOK IV TROPES WANT TO KNOW MORE? CORE STRUCTURAL TROPES The Exodus Without a Promised Land Movement is necessary, not hopeful. There is no destination that improves moral conditions—only zones of different failure. Subversion: Exodus is loss-minimization, not deliverance. Flight Escalates the Threat Leaving safety increases...
BISAC GENRE CATEGORIES These are the BISAC Categories our books fit in, by order of importance.FIC005000 FICTION / DYSTOPIANFIC028000 FICTION / SCIENCE FICTION / GENERALFIC042000 FICTION / POLITICALFIC066000 FICTION / SOCIAL THEMES BISAC CODES BISAC CATEGORIES Positioning (in order of importance) FIC005000 — FICTION / DYSTOPIAN Primary category. The series centers on systemic control, social...
WARRIORS BLOG ARCHIVES Insights, news, lore expansions, production notes, and world-building from the Warriors of the Last Days series. ARCHIVES CATEGORIES LATEST POSTS Post-Apocalyptic Fiction in Nunavut Frozen Worlds: Exploring Post-Apocalyptic Fiction in Nunavut The Arctic has always occupied a unique place in the imagination of writers. Vast, isolated, and often unforgiving, Canada’s North...
Welcome to Warriors of the Last Days This space is the threshold. You didn’t arrive here by accident. Warriors of the Last Days is a dystopian systems-fiction series set in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the ruins of a world that did not end in fire or prophecy, but in optimization. A future where infrastructure outlived belief, where survival became procedural, and where people learned—slowly...
DYSTOPIAN TROPES OF BOOK I: THE REFUSAL Most dystopian fiction is, at its core, a hero story wearing a dark coat. The world is oppressive, the stakes are high but the narrative bends toward the protagonist. They doubt themselves, then somehow act exactly and correctly. They are tested, then proven. The system, however vast, ultimately exists to be defeated by one person who turns out to matter...
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.