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Vajra Chandrasekera

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Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka and is online at https://vajra.me. His debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors won the Nebula and Crawford awards, and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2023. His second novel Rakesfall is out in 2024. ...more

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The Deadlands, in Fall and Winter

It had been a while since I last curated original fiction for publication; I am very happy to have had the chance to do it again for two issues of The Deadlands, Issue #40 for Fall 2025 and Issue #41 for Winter 2026. The stories will be available online (the Issue #40 stories already are and the #41 stories will be gradually released over the coming weeks) but you can (and also should) buy the iss

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	The Saint of Bright Doors 3.65 avg rating — 7,149 ratings — published 2023 — 10 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
	Rakesfall 3.30 avg rating — 1,403 ratings — published 2024 — 7 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
	Dharmas - On Being Undone by a Light Breeze (Future Fiction Book 12) by Vajra Chandrasekera (Goodreads Author), Guido Salto (Illustrator), Francesco Verso (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	When Leopard's-Bane Came to the Door of Third Heaven 3.43 avg rating — 7 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
	Ion Unnatural 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2020	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
	El umbral y el dique 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 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
	Afterlives: The Year's Best Death Fiction 2023 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2024	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
	See the Elephant, Issue 4, Beyond Death by Vajra Chandrasekera (Goodreads Author), Dennis Danvers, Maria Haskins (Goodreads Author) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Black Warrior Review, Fall/Winter 2017, Issue 44.1 by Vajra Chandrasekera (Goodreads Author), Chekwube O. Danladi, Angela Pelster did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	Big Echo (No. 9) by Vajra Chandrasekera (Goodreads Author), Ahimaz Rajessh, Innocent Chizaram Ilo did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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Vajra Chandrasekera wrote a new blog post Indian Ocean Writers’ Residency: History and Fiction, History As Fiction I will be one of the speakers/mentors at the Indian Ocean Writers’ Residency in Bentota, Sri Lanka from July 9‒15 2026. The residency is hosted by Tam Read more of this blog post »
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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.”
― Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors

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“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.”
― Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors

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“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.”
― Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

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April 2025 Novel Pick: Nebula Shortlist

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera

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Asunder by Kerstin Hall

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Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

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Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav Barsukov

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A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

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The Book of Love by Kelly Link

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