Here’s What Happened to Una
THE DRIFT is where Una’s story turns. She’s been running west from the Stadium, moving through the wreckage of Montreal’s outskirts, looking for a way off the island and out of its reach. What she finds instead is everything the outskirts have become.
The Whistlers, a tribe of scavengers who communicate in a language of pure sound. Blue mutated coyotes that hunt like a hive mind. At the weather radar station, someone is tracking the Stadium’s psionic waves as the invading forces spread west. At Senneville, a village is trying to hold back the Stadium by controlling the air itself. Una wants none of it. She wants west.
Carnivorous plants. Galluses, mutated chickens that are not remotely funny. And in Lac des Deux Montagnes, eels large enough to end the question of crossing entirely.
The island won’t let her leave. And somewhere between the eels and the Glowers, she understands that escape was never the solution. She needs to end the Drift and face what she was trying to escape all along. She turns back east. Toward the cave. Toward the beginning.
On the way she faces the Tollers, who tax passage on Highway 15 in whatever currency they decide you can least afford to lose. The Carvers, who have resolved the food problem in the most direct way available. The Fence Sitters, who found the cost of decisions too high and simply stopped making them. Giant dung beetles. The Stadium itself, following her wherever she goes.
WHAT IS THE DRIFT?
THE DRIFT is the third book in the Warriors of the Last Days series, a post-nuclear dystopian series set in Montreal where the world has not ended so much as mutated into something that no longer needs you to survive it.
It is out September 28 in ePub formats and trade paperback. You can find it on the book page and on your preferred retailer.
If you have been following the series from the short stories: Heading West, The Carver and the Stone, this is where those roads converge. If you are coming in fresh at Book III, you are in for something that gets stranger, darker, and funnier the further Una goes west and then back east again.
September 28 is the day the roads converge, and what Una finds at the end of them is the third book of the Warriors of the Last Days, out in trade paperback, the strangest road the series has taken yet. September 28. The Drift. Pick it up.
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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.