A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaWarriors of the Last Days is a dystopian novel tetralogy by Stéphane Roy set in a post-nuclear Montreal. The series, categorized as ‘systems fiction,’ explores the reorganization of institutions, infrastructure, and human identity following a global collapse through digital and print formats.
WARRIORS OF THE LAST DAYS POST-APOCALYPTIC SERIES Warriors of the Last Days is a dystopian post-apocalyptic speculative fiction series set in a devastated Canada, with each city revealing a different face of collapse, adaptation, and control, often in relation to their local specificity and history. It explores the people and communities that remain: how they adapted to catastrophe, how they...
INDIVIDUAL NOVELS & CURRENT SERIES PROGRESS The Route So Far Stories rarely appear all at once. They are built piece by piece, like a long line stretching across unknown territory. This page tracks that journey. Warriors of the Last Days is not a single novel but an evolving saga set across the entire country of Canada, in each province and territory. This also includes teh St-Pierre and...
FEELING READY: MAKING PROGRESS There is something exciting about how the body feels when you know you are close to something. Close to the finish line, close to finishing the manuscript. We just completed The Lullaby: A Song for the Last Days, inspired by the music video we recently edited, set in the Warriors of the Last Days universe. As usual, it was meant to start as one thing, some sort of...
RESTRICTED ACCESS: CLEARANCE LEVELS Access to the Archive is structured. Each tier unlocks a deeper layer of the system. Only the stories that exist between novels are connected to the tiers and have full RESTRICTED ACCESS according to when you became a newsletter subscriber. Clearance is assigned at the moment of subscription. depending on available space at that moment, and remains fixed...
The Warriors of the Last Days ARC Program Is Now Open Montreal is gone. What grew in its place is something that shouldn’t exist. That’s the world of Warriors of the Last Days: a four-book dystopian series set in post-nuclear Montreal, where survival is managed by systems nobody voted for, power hides inside procedures, and the most dangerous thing in the ruins might not have claws...
Exclusive First Look COVER REVEAL Book I: The Refusal I’ve been sitting on this cover reveal for a while now, and I’ll be honest, it’s been hard to keep quiet about it. Warriors of the Last Days started as a question I couldn’t shake: what happens to ordinary people when everything collapses at once? Not just governments or infrastructure, but the assumptions we live by:...
The Post-Apocalyptic Lullaby That Started Everything Before the spark. Before the resistance. Before any of it, there was a song. A Lullaby.The world in Warriors of the Last Days is post-nuclear Montreal stripped to its bones: ashen skies, System towers, creatures that shouldn’t exist, and people learning to survive inside the ruins of everything they used to know. It is not a gentle world...
PROLOGUE TO A PROLOGUE TEASER Some scenes write themselves as film long before anyone points a camera at them. The prologue to Warriors of the Last Days was always one of those scenes. Two men. A bunker. A command that can’t be taken back. I knew from the moment I wrote it that it wanted […]
LOCATIONS BOOK II: THE EXODUS BOOK II: The Exodus has some of the most compelling and strangest locations in the Montreal arc of the Warriors of the Last Days series. BOOK I LOCATIONS BOOK III LOCATIONS BOOK IV LOCATIONS WANT TO KNOW MORE? THE SUMP The Sump is a flooded settlement built aolongside the former Décarie highway, where slow brown water swallowed the old highway and forced survivors to...
Making the Teaser That Nearly Broke Us When we began work on the teaser for The Spark, we expected intensity. We did not expect resistance. Book IV of Warriors of the Last Days is about ignition: pressure accumulated over three volumes finally finding flame. It felt only right that its teaser would burn hotter, move faster, strike deeper. Instead, we stalled. The iconic Montreal Olympic Stadium...
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.