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.
Writing
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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Archive
Contributions to the Lunar Codex
In which my work ends up on the Moon, thanks to Samuel Peralta's efforts to archive works by 30,000 artists via NASA Artemis / CLPS program partners.
Novel
The Inhuman Peace
A biopunk Colombo from an alternate future. Colonialism. A machine uprising. And the consequences.
Ideas
Foreword to the Wretched and the Damned
A group of superpowered malcontents take down the corrupt, nepotistic government of Sri Lanka.
Ideas
Foreword to the Salvage Crew (2020)
In which I explain my technical shenanigans involved in creating the Salvage Crew, the how, and the why.
Ideas
The Technology of the Commonwealth Empires
Notes on the directions that the world took in an alternate future