A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaCHARACTERS FROM MILE ZERO WREN: Wren is the pragmatic centre of Mile Zero: the one everyone in the settlement actually listens to, whatever the council votes. She is torn between Beckett and Doyle, and not out of indecision about who she prefers: committing to either means giving up the other, and both of them are whole answers to how to survive this. To her, Beckett is the comfort of the known...
There are places in Canada that look as though they were made for a post-apocalyptic story. The Saguenay Fjord is one of them.
CHARACTERS FROM THE MAID PHIL/ROB: The river calls him the Robber, and when this book opens he has survived a year alone on Anticosti with nothing but the island itself, which suited him fine: he is a man who counts. Waves, crates, days, footprints. A fishing party recognizes the name. A nineteen-man mob has other plans, and the biggest man on the river ends the argument in a fistfight and a...
CHARACTERS FROM DAY OF THE CHRYSALIDS SANDRINE GAUDET: Sandrine Gaudet crossed to Labrador as nobody crosses anymore: on foot, over the sea ice, because the ferries are gone and she needed the mainland. She is forty-five, a nurse’s discipline in a trapper’s coat, and she rations herself to one thought a day about the journal wrapped in oilcloth against her heart, the thing she is...
CHARACTERS 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...
BOOK VII: THE FRONT CHARACTERS Jenny Whitfield: Jenny is the one who keeps the household alive, and the house has never once said so out loud. Water hauled in numbered jugs twice a week. Rations marked with a grease pencil at half past five every morning, sixteen litres for four people, subtracted in her head before anyone else is awake. In the old world she was the gala-and-fundraiser half of a...
Quebec City stands out in North American post‑apocalyptic fiction because its bilingual civic framework and reliance on hydroelectric power shape survival when infrastructure collapses. The harsh winter, sparse population, and St. Lawrence corridor turn the city into a fortress and trade hub. Warriors of the Last Days explores this setting through novels, novellas, and short stories.
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Meat Cove, the October short story in Warriors of the Last Days series, is a standalone horror set in Meat Cove, Nova Scotia, out October 1, after apocalypse. A hungry traveler stumbles onto village, meets a woman named Margaret, and shares a meal. Free for newsletter subscribers, it is available for $0.99 on Kobo.
THE DRIFT, book III of the Warriors of the Last Days series, releases September 28, 2026. Una heads west through the ruins of Montreal's outskirts and discovers that escape was never the solution.
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.