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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Spring in Ithaca
Giuseppe Bottani, Athena Appearing To Odysseus To Reveal The Island Of Ithaca (c. 1770s)I’m doing two in-person events in Ithaca, NY in March, on the 19th and 20th, on the very cusp of the vernal equinox. Both events are free and open to anyone who wants to join in! Details below.
March 19: Speculative Fiction from South Asia: A Conversation with Vajra Chandrasekera, for the Cornell South Asia Prog Read more of this blog post »
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The Saint of Bright Doors
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2023
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Rakesfall
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2024
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Dharmas - On Being Undone by a Light Breeze (Future Fiction Book 12)
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2015
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When Leopard's-Bane Came to the Door of Third Heaven
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Ion Unnatural
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2020
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El umbral y el dique
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Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Fiction 2023
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See the Elephant, Issue 4, Beyond Death
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“Remember, son,” Mother-of-Glory says, compensating with pomposity for her deficits of piety or affection. “The only way to change the world is through intentional, directed violence.”
― The Saint of Bright Doors
― The Saint of Bright Doors
“Every time I led him to the right place at the right time, I first quietly eliminated all the places and times that were wrong. Luck is only someone else’s labour.”
― The Saint of Bright Doors
― The Saint of Bright Doors
“I voted for peace, even though peace seems like the kind of science fiction that posits a future utopia, sleek and bald and rational, without satisfactory explanation of how we get to there from here, this convoluted, bloody *here*, except by appealing to our better natures at critical moments, a long arc bending towards justice. It seems like science fiction, wrapped in a pulp cover.”
― Rakesfall
― Rakesfall
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Short Story of the Month - August 2025
'The Translator, at Low Tide' by Vajra Chandrasekera
'His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light' by Mimi Mondal
Agni' by Nibedita Sen
AirBody' by Sameem Siddiqui
'Interstate Mohinis' by M.L. Krishnan
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