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Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has published over fifty short stories in magazines and anthologies including Analog, Black Static, and Clarkesworld, among others, and his short fiction has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His debut novel is THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS. He blogs at vajra.me and is @_vajra on Twitter.
Awards: Le Guin (2025), Otherwise (2024), Nebula (2023) see all
Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy
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Deep Dream (2024)
Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art
(Twelve Tomorrows)
edited by
Indrapramit Das
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Vajra Chandrasekera recommends
Saltcrop (2025)
Yume Kitasei
"The blighted and ruined landscapes the Shimizu sisters traverse, and the disease-struck, semi-feral communities they encounter, all feel dangerously nearby, a world three minutes into the future of our present disastrous trajectory. The love they bear for one another, even if it's often tangled up in old pains and many mutual irritations, makes even that future feel survivable. Get a copy of Saltcrop for all the perpetually warring siblings you know."
Asunder (2024)
Kerstin Hall
"Karys Eska keeps making desperate pacts just to stay alive, and every single one of them goes wrong. Asunder is a fast-paced dark fantasy, beautifully, bloodily eldritch, but also a political crime thriller in a setting where even divinity is violently contested. Karys finds all her debts-her gods, her families, and her clients-coming due at once, and the hardest people to trust are the ones closest to her."
The Spice Gate (2024)
Prashanth Srivatsa
"The Spice Gate is a grand epic fantasy with a fiery core of rage against injustice. This is a book you can taste, where flavour itself is a kind of magic, but also symbolic of power, trade, and violence. A critique of caste, religion, and hierarchy and the way they constrain our lives and imaginations, that takes us through the gamut of forms of resistance, from art to exile to rebellion, and reminds us: sometimes you have to rise up not only against the priests but their gods."
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