Short story collection
The Slow Sad Suicide of Rohan Wijeratne
A collection of short stories from 2017-2022
Hi. I'm Yudhanjaya Wijeratne.
I'm a storyteller from Colombo, Sri Lanka. I show up in many different guises - an award-winning author, OSINT journalist, data scientist, occasional game designer and AI programmer. Welcome to my portfolio and digital garden.
I’ve been featured in some interesting places.
Books!
My stories have won the Gratiean Prize, been nominated for the Nebula and Independent Games Festival awards, appeared in venues like Wired, ForeignPolicy and Slate, and been Washington Post and Audible bestsellers. These are my biggest, publicly accessible works.
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Novel
The Inhuman Peace
A biopunk Colombo from an alternate future. Colonialism. A machine uprising. And the consequences.
Novel
The Salvage Crew
Either "AI x language games x space colonization x poetry x Buddhism" or: "A C-team lands on a backwater planet on one of the shittiest salvage jobs anyone could take on, and discovers that we're not alone in the universe."
Anthology
Mohs 5.5 Megastructures
A curated collection of global science fiction stories centered around megastructures and massive feats of engineering.
Special Projects
I’m usually working on several things at any given time. Sometimes these are tiny projects - sometimes they’re long, perpetual, possibly Sisyphean acts of tomfoolery. This is what I’m working on right now.
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Homestead
The Earthbag Homestead
My long-held dream of living as sustainably as possible, with the peace of mind, in a home of my own.
Watchdog
Watchdog Sri Lanka
A factchecker, data journalism operation, public software builder, an open-source research collective.
Software
OSUN
In which my poetry generator and fiction ended up on the Moon, thanks to Samuel Peralta's efforts to build an archive of art.
Software
I speak to the machine often, and from time to time I produce something that might be interesting. Here's a few of them.
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