A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear Canada A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear Canada
In post-apocalypse Montreal, two systems fight for control: ritual and faith versus calculation and logic. Una, raised in a cave, is dragged to...
THE WORLD DID NOT END. IT HARDENED.
Montréal survived the collapse by becoming smaller, colder, and crueler.
Inside the Olympic Stadium, survival has been transformed into ritual under the rule of Prester John, where hunger, pain, and obedience are treated as sacred necessities.
Beyond its walls, the remnants of the old world grind on through rationing systems, labour, underground corridors, flooded infrastructure, and the constant arithmetic of scarcity. Everyone belongs somewhere. Everyone is counted.
Una refuses in ways she cannot explain.
Taken from the limestone cave where she was raised in hiding, she is thrust into a city that demands surrender long before it offers safety.
Branded Eighty-Four and forced through a series of brutal ordeals designed to strip people down to usefulness, she survives in ways she should not.
But refusal has a cost.
As Montréal’s systems tighten around her, Una is pushed deeper into a fractured world of drowned métro tunnels, failing systems, exhausted survivors, and communities forced to decide what parts of themselves they are willing to sacrifice to keep living one more winter.
The Refusal is a dark and immersive post-apocalyptic novel about survival, identity, and the quiet forms of resistance that remain when every system demands obedience.
Atmospheric, brutal, and deeply human, it explores what happens when people are no longer asked who they are, only what they are worth.
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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.