A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaDYSTOPIAN 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...
WARRIORS OF THE LAST DAYS DYSTOPIAN TROPES Across all four books, familiar dystopian and post-apocalyptic tropes appear, then shift. There are ruins. There is collapse. There are leaders, rebels, believers, and systems that claim necessity. There are journeys, enclaves, ideological clashes, and moral tests. But the series does not lean on spectacle for its tension. It interrogates it. Prophecy is...
LAST PROTOCOL PROLOGUE Before the world of Warriors of the Last Days, there was a final decision. The Last Protocol is that decision. The air in the bunker was frigid, sharp with the sour residue of men who had breathed each other’s fear for too long.Beyond the reinforced concrete shell, the world was coming apart.Inside, routine had hardened into ritual. This cathedral of switches and...
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.