A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaCHARACTERS FROM IRON SHEPHERDS AARON: Aaron is the colony’s only mechanic, which in a Hutterite colony under the ground means he is the man who keeps it breathing: the pumps, the fans, the ducts that serve for lungs, the bells that serve for a heartbeat. He hears the one fan stall that nobody else catches. He keeps a log, counts heads name by name, signs his work with initials, and carries...
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...
IRON SHEPHERDS CREATURE The Iron Shepherds story does not contain a lot of creatures but the one it does have is properly terrifying. SIRENS OF THE SILT They were geese before the Light, Canada geese, the kind that used to fill the Manitoba sky every autumn in numbers a man could set his calendar by. They didn’t survive the fallout so much as answer it. What came back doesn’t migrate anymore. It...
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.