A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaMontreal rarely appears on lists of apocalypse settings, yet it may be the best-suited city in North America: an island with hundreds of kilometres of tunnels and its own underground-fiction tradition.
The journey begins in Montreal: a city transformed by water, ash, and the machinery of the old world. The first stop in a broken Canada explored one city at a time.
There's a specific feeling in the body when a manuscript is nearly done. The Lullaby - a song for the last days - is complete, and the end of Book One is finally in sight.
THE EXODUS TRAILER This is the tale of the Sump, attacked by the Stadium, where the survivors decide to leave for a promised land set in an abandoned quarry in the heart of the City. Watch the official trailer for the dystopian systems-fiction novel THE EXODUS set in post-apocalyptic Montreal. If The Refusal explored control within the Stadium’s engineered ritual, the Exodus expands the world...
THE REFUSAL TRAILER The first descent into the Stadium’s architecture of obedience. Watch the official trailer for the dystopian systems-fiction novel THE REFUSAL set in post-collapse Montreal. The official The Refusal trailer for Book I of Warriors of the Last Days, introduces a dystopian Montreal shaped by chaos on one side and optimization on the other. In this speculative systems-fiction...
RESO, a quantum computer that runs Montreal's Underground City, a 30‑kilometer network of tunnels linking metro stations, offices, and shops, optimizes space, resources, food, and population. It models risks and forces outcomes to combat decay and entropy. Because it is stochastic, its results are unpredictable, sometimes causing damage despite its protective intent in practice.
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.