
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.
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.
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.
Show allIn the aftermath of the Salvage Crew, an interstellar freighter is dispatched to find out what lives at the heart of the galaxy.
A collection of short stories from 2017-2022
A biopunk Colombo from an alternate future. Colonialism. A machine uprising. And the consequences.
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."
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.
Show allAn online exhibition in which I offered a small, terrifying glimpse of the future: AI-generated author biographies.
My long-held dream of living as sustainably as possible, with the peace of mind, in a home of my own.
A factchecker, data journalism operation, public software builder, an open-source research collective.
In which my poetry generator and fiction ended up on the Moon, thanks to Samuel Peralta's efforts to build an archive of art.
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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