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.

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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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Short story collection

The Slow Sad Suicide of Rohan Wijeratne

A collection of short stories from 2017-2022

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.

Novel

The Salvage Crew

AI x language games x space colonization x poetry x Buddhism.

Notes

A collection of half-baked thoughts.

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Ideas

The fate of the gorillas

A few simple thoughts on superintelligence, synthesizers, perception of value and also gorillas.

Contraptions

My Low Power Writing Setup

A brief guide to low-cost, low-energy writing setups

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.

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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