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Vajra Chandrasekera@vajra.me |
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Writer. Revenant. Author of the novels THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (Crawford, Locus, Nebula winner; Hugo, SCKA finalist) and RAKESFALL (out now!) vajra.me/books
Usually Colombo, currently NYC. Website: vajra.me
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Elly
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Just bought @vajra.me ‘s The Saint of Bright Doors and also LeGuin’s The Wizard of Earthsea (for similar thematic reasons!!) for a dear one going thru a rough time. Also threw in a 4-pack of Wells’s Murderbot for fun (not same thematic issues at all really). So grateful for good books!
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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it's an excellent haul!
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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hope you enjoy them!!!
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Hope you enjoy it!
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Cat Treadwell
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So many brilliant books for 99p!
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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I strongly recommend at the bare minimum buying all books with "water" in the title (THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER and THE WATER OUTLAWS)
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Also if you like books with "saint" in the title you are going to be very interested in this sale
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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UK ebook sale at £0.99! At that price you should really just pick up all of these instantly. Includes my first novel THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS, which has been getting some buzz across the pond and only just came out in the UK, so an excellent chance to see what all the fuss is about
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Solaris Books
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🚨🌈 EBOOK SALE!🌈 🚨
#pridemonth may be over but we're #stillproud!
Until 23:59 on 14/7 you can grab all of these fab titles for 0.99 each on our website!
Ft. @mattfnwallace.bsky.social @vajra.me @deuceofgears.bsky.social @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social @slhuang.com & more!
Sale: bit.ly/3ng219P
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Thank you!! And I hope you enjoy this one too haha
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Aliette de Bodard
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Absolutely loved The Saint of Bright Doors and looking forward to this one when I get a bit of brain back (in order to appreciate it fully!)
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Thank you so much!!!
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Jess Nevins
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Rakesfall by @vajra.me : dizzying, phantasmagoric. Wonderfully written, so intelligent. Wit and heartbreak and a long meditation on oppression and the ending of same. To be devoured, but to be savored more; the prose is superb.
Rakesfall should be a finalist for every award there is.
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Premee Mohamed
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Y E S (I keep telling people to read THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS, read it please) It gave me the same 'so full of emtions I'm about to pop' feeling as at the end of PIRANESI As if the whole novel happened within one house, and the ending opened the front door to a WHOLE NEW GIANT WORLD
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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This was so good. Absolutely dying waiting for the English translation of LAS INDIGNAS
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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I'm glad you both enjoyed it! 😁
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Mötley Jëw
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Wow just finished @vajra.me’s The Saint of Bright Doors and I’m so full of emotions.
Maybe I’m over reading a bit but it also seems so about current events in certain ways…
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Matt Neil Hill
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My reading has been in a real slump this last year (worse even than the couple of years before that) so I'm setting what I hope is a *kind of* realistic goal for the end of the year: these 4 books plus THE MAD BUTTERFLY'S BALL anthology (which I'm in) and the remaining half of Joe Koch's INVAGINIES.
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Glad you're enjoying it!!!
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Jess Nevins
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Now in Switzerland. Lush countryside reminds me of a more dramatic Vermont, although of course Alps are their own thing.
Reading Rakesfall by @vajra.me , which is as good as advertised.
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Thank you!!! Haha yes I'm glad RAKESFALL made it to print in SAINT's slipstream, more or less, it would have been a much harder sell as a first book.
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Aditya Bidikar
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More on this in this week’s newsletter, but I just finished RAKESFALL, and boy, you have not read a book like it this decade, let alone this year. Also, a very canny use of a well-received debut to put out a book THIS audacious as your sophomore effort. Well-fucking-done, @vajra.me!
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Wole Talabi
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Hey y'all. Join me, @suyidavies.com, Tlotlo and Ivana for a discussion on Afrocentric futurisms. We'll talk African speculative fiction, thematic resonances in our recent books, class, climate and African philosophies in SF, plus more!
Register here: macmillan-publishers.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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And at Castel Sant'Angelo, with its tiny wild angels.
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Visiting Pompeii
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Me at the Colosseum
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Also a slight tendency to take pictures of local animals instead of the Sight that I am there to See
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Yes I am very bad at remembering to take photographs of things and did not take a single photo of the actual fountain
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Did not offer a coin to the fountain, and therefore shall never see it again.
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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I visited the Trevi Fountain last summer! It was Festa della Repubblica and the Frecce Tricolori did the Italian flag overhead just as we turned the corner to see the fountain down the block. (I was not quick enough with my phone to capture the planes themselves)
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Thanks for writing! And for the shout-out!
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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😁 hahaha I hope you enjoy it!!
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Natalia Theodoridou
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I have a new story in this!
"Aktis Aeliou, or the Machine of Margot's Destruction" is science fantasy about Greek gods in space, needy love, and running towards oneself.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/theodoridou_...
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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We're all waiting for Alecto!!! But yes, do check us out in the meantime :D
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Natural skulker it me
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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btw I will be at Readercon this year come say hi if you see me skulking about
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Congrats to you! And yes I am enjoying it so much! I am trying to stretch it out by only reading it when near running water
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Things that there are ministries of, in novel titles: — Time — The Future — Utmost Happiness
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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god I'd forgotten this was on the matrix soundtrack
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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this summer, changing my entrance theme song to:
look to your orb for the warning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDyQ...
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Bethany Bee
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60. Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera: an utter fever dream of a book, stories nestled within stories, truly epic in scope. dense, complex, demanding. the cover blurb is WILDLY inadequate. this book makes you work for it. (halfway to my goal for the year, on the dot!)
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Eddie Clark
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This entire list has exactly two books which won a 'big two' hugo/nebula; from day 1 and day 30 - Slow River and The Saint of Bright Doors (both Nebula). Some authors have won for other books, some books were nominated (but not that many). Read beyond the big awards if you want to find good stuff!
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Eddie Clark
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Final comments, as promised. First up, here's the whole 30 year list of queer books, 1 for each year, in 1 post.
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Aisha and Dan on genre as technique, one of my favourite subjects, and with a lovely shoutout to THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS! (Also, reminder: the Strange Horizons fund drive is on, and you can get signed copies of SAINT and RAKESFALL as a backer reward!)
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Dan Hartland
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🚨 New Critical Friends podcast now up!
Join @actuallyaisha.bsky.social and me to consider genre's critical boundaries - how can we define them, to what ends?
We mention Isabella Hammad and vv ganeshananthan, JRR Tolkien and @vajra.me, The New Yorker & more.
strangehorizons.com/podcasts/cri...
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Congrats!!!!
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Tashan Mehta
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MAD SISTERS OF ESI is a Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards finalist! Alongside the brilliant @vajra.me 🔥
Congratulations to all the finalists, and delighted to see fellow South Asians @lavanya.bsky.social and @indrapramitdas.bsky.social here too ❤️
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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I have a signed copy of OKPSYCHE next to me right now btw it is incredible and you should read it
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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Congrats to all the shortlistees and finalists! And if someone with a good internet connection happens to be in this specific Glasgow pub when they shout out the winners, please livestream it for the rest of us!
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Vajra Chandrasekera
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I have been dying to read MAD SISTERS (and have two copies! But they're both back in Colombo, so not quite yet argh.) Tashan's debut LIAR'S WEAVE was wonderful too, do check it out if you haven't read it. Very happy to see our chaos jurors reading and enjoying these books!
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