The Laurentian Fault: A New Speculative Fiction Series Begins January 2027

Anthony Ezisi’s upcoming novel, The Expropriation Winter, imagines how an unprecedented climate-driven migration could transform Canada.

The Expropriation Winter, the first novel in Anthony Ezisi’s new speculative fiction series, The Laurentian Fault, is scheduled for release in January 2027.

Set in 2050, the novel imagines a Europe increasingly threatened by extreme climate conditions and a Canada that agrees to receive twenty million displaced people. What begins as an extraordinary humanitarian undertaking raises difficult questions about the country’s capacity to accommodate so many newcomers and the consequences for communities already struggling with climate disasters of their own.

The inspiration for the series came unexpectedly while Ezisi was watching news coverage of Europe’s worsening climate conditions.

“I was watching reports about extreme heat in Europe when a question occurred to me: What if large parts of the continent eventually became uninhabitable? Where would all those people go? Canada has an enormous landmass, and I began imagining what would happen if millions of them came here. With my background in engineering and project management, I found myself thinking about the practical challenges of accommodating such a population. How would a country make something of that magnitude work? That was where the story began.”

Envisioned as an expansive, character-driven saga with the potential to span up to five novels, The Laurentian Fault explores the human consequences of an unprecedented national undertaking and how decisions made during a crisis can reshape a country for generations.

Discover more about The Laurentian Fault series.

What a country builds to survive changes what it becomes.