Novel
The Wretched and the Damned
A group of superpowered malcontents take down the corrupt, nepotistic government of Sri Lanka.
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
Choir of Hatred
Meet the Rubber Ducks. A mercenary company fighting to stay alive, make payroll - except there's a very big problem: reality keeps getting in their way.
Novel
Pilgrim Machines
In the aftermath of the Salvage Crew, an interstellar freighter is dispatched to find out what lives at the heart of the galaxy.
Short story collection
The Slow Sad Suicide of Rohan Wijeratne
A collection of short stories from 2017-2022
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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Software
Auto | Biography
An online exhibition in which I offered a small, terrifying glimpse of the future: AI-generated author biographies.
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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