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N.A. Ratnayake

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Nalin Ratnayake writes fiction as N.A. Ratnayake, primarily in the genres of science fiction and fantasy.

His stories have appeared in Crossed Genres Magazine as well as the post-colonial SF anthology We See A Different Frontier. His short story Remembering Turinam received an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Thirty-First Edition. His Mars novel Red Soil Through Our Fingers was published in January 2016 and explores a future of corporate-controlled space settlement.

Nalin's works tend to explore layered identities, connection to the natural world, asymmetric power struggle, colonialism/imperialism, humanism, and veiled optimism.

As an engineer, writer, and educator, Nalin is strongly committed to explorin ...more

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	We See a Different Frontier: A postcolonial speculative fiction anthology by Fábio Fernandes (Goodreads Author), Djibril al-Ayad (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.98 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Soil Through Our Fingers 4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crossed Genres Magazine 2.0 Book Two by Bart R. Leib (Goodreads Author) (Editor), N.A. Ratnayake (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remembering Turinam it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crossed Genres Magazine 2.0, Issue 7: Expectations (Crossed Genres Magazine 2.0, #7) by Bart R. Leib (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kay T. Holt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), N.A. Ratnayake (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Parched Lands 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
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