Vajra Chandrasekera
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Vajra Chandrasekera is a Sri Lankan author of fantasy and science fiction, born and raised in Colombo.
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3 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Novels: The Saint of Bright Doors (2023); Rakesfall (2024) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Awards: For The Saint of Bright Doors: Nebula (2023), Locus Best First Novel (2024), Crawford (2024), Ignyte (2024) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Short fiction: "The Translator, at Low Tide", Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist (2021) (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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5 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Nolan's The Odyssey is a film anxiously concerned that it is too smart for its audience. (opens korrents.com)
“It is a film deeply concerned that it’s too smart for you: it explains to you that it is a sapiosexual, actually. There is a visible concern that you might not be getting it.”
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It is the text, not the physical book, that makes reading happen. (opens korrents.com)
“It is the text, not the physical book, that makes the thing happen.”
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A book as a physical object has no aura, but its text does. (opens korrents.com)
“A book, as a physical object, generally has no aura, as Benjamin described it, but the text does.”
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Nolan's The Odyssey is a film anxiously concerned that it is too smart for its audience. (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Old Drift (opens rcmnd.app)
“I think Gnomon is the oldest book I’m recommending today; it came out a couple of years before The Old Drift.”
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Gnomon (opens rcmnd.app)
“I think Gnomon is the oldest book I’m recommending today; it came out a couple of years before The Old Drift.”
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Harrow the Ninth (opens rcmnd.app)
“Harrow the Ninth is about the ramifications of ‘sort of’ – what does ‘sort of’ mean exactly.”
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The Old Drift (opens rcmnd.app)