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...
October 10, 2026
THE FRONT CHARACTERS
10October

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.