Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
@yudhanjaya.bsky.social
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📚 Fantasy & sci-fi
🔧 Mad engineering
🌱 Gardens and farm life content
🎧 Classical music and Lo-fi beats to chill/study to
🎮 Video games and dev. Think FFVII, Cassette Beasts, Pokémon, Rimworld
🎼 Linkin Park, Audiomachine, Yosi Horikawa, anything scored by Ramin Djawadi or Clint Mansell
📚 Fantasy & sci-fi
🔧 Mad engineering
🌱 Gardens and farm life content
🎧 Classical music and Lo-fi beats to chill/study to
🎮 Video games and dev. Think FFVII, Cassette Beasts, Pokémon, Rimworld
🎼 Linkin Park, Audiomachine, Yosi Horikawa, anything scored by Ramin Djawadi or Clint Mansell
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"Find a reason to exist, because the universe will always give you reasons not to."
Such a good line, from Pilgrim Machines by @yudhanjaya.bsky.social
Such a good line, from Pilgrim Machines by @yudhanjaya.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Find a reason to exist, because the universe will always give you reasons not to."
Such a good line, from Pilgrim Machines by @yudhanjaya.bsky.social
Such a good line, from Pilgrim Machines by @yudhanjaya.bsky.social
Oooh!
Our copies of @yudhanjaya.bsky.social's Salvage Crew trilogy arrived at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social! We're having a reading group on June 6 before Yudhanjaya's keynote at the CDN PhD summer school the following week. If you're in Bergen and like scifi about AI please join us! www.uib.no/en/cdn/17812...
The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Join us to discuss how AI, poetry and interspecies communication are explored in the scifi novels of Sri Lankan author Yudhanjaya Wijeratne.
www.uib.no
May 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Oooh!
I'm glad I got to blow a few minds with the Salvage Crew and Pilgrim Machines. Reminder: Choir of Hatred is out now! There's a whole trilogy! And they're good, especially if you like your narrators mangling existential dread and Buddhism in the dark depths of space.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6X7N8J...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6X7N8J...
May 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I'm glad I got to blow a few minds with the Salvage Crew and Pilgrim Machines. Reminder: Choir of Hatred is out now! There's a whole trilogy! And they're good, especially if you like your narrators mangling existential dread and Buddhism in the dark depths of space.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6X7N8J...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0D6X7N8J...
The new Asterix series on Netflix is fantastic. Clever, beautiful, and has that classic Goscinny×Uderzo vibe.
May 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
The new Asterix series on Netflix is fantastic. Clever, beautiful, and has that classic Goscinny×Uderzo vibe.
This is fantastic idea.
Introducing Gogomi!
A walking companion app that shows which streets you haven’t explored (yet!) and tracks your progress across your neighbourhood and city.
Available now for most of Metro Van (Apple Watch required)
apps.apple.com/ca/app/gogom...
A walking companion app that shows which streets you haven’t explored (yet!) and tracks your progress across your neighbourhood and city.
Available now for most of Metro Van (Apple Watch required)
apps.apple.com/ca/app/gogom...
April 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
This is fantastic idea.
Being a Buddhist
April 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Being a Buddhist
Meet Yudha's Starmap: a little galaxy generator in the browser. My own little slice of No Man's Sky.
Something I've been tinkering with on and off for four years now, finally usable! Very happy with this.
github.com/yudhanjaya/S...
Something I've been tinkering with on and off for four years now, finally usable! Very happy with this.
github.com/yudhanjaya/S...
April 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Meet Yudha's Starmap: a little galaxy generator in the browser. My own little slice of No Man's Sky.
Something I've been tinkering with on and off for four years now, finally usable! Very happy with this.
github.com/yudhanjaya/S...
Something I've been tinkering with on and off for four years now, finally usable! Very happy with this.
github.com/yudhanjaya/S...
Fascinating. First time I’ve heard of this. So eerie to see so many American headlines in the last decade come straight out of this plot.
The Oklahoma City bombing took place 30 years ago today. It was inspired in part by a horrific novel that brought together white supremacists around the country.
Here’s a piece I wrote about it a couple of years ago: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/white-suprem...
Here’s a piece I wrote about it a couple of years ago: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/white-suprem...
The hateful sci-fi novel that brought white supremacists together
The Turner Diaries inspired generations of white supremacists, and its narrative filled with racist tropes continues to have an impact.
transfer-orbit.ghost.io
April 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Fascinating. First time I’ve heard of this. So eerie to see so many American headlines in the last decade come straight out of this plot.
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Just got the next two books set in The Salvage Crew universe. @yudhanjaya.bsky.social is a unique voice in the sci-fi space. If you like thought provoking, hard sci-fi, check these out. They're all standalone books set in the same universe.
April 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Just got the next two books set in The Salvage Crew universe. @yudhanjaya.bsky.social is a unique voice in the sci-fi space. If you like thought provoking, hard sci-fi, check these out. They're all standalone books set in the same universe.
If you liked The Salvage Crew (2020) and the sequel I spent four years on - Pilgrim Machines (2024) . . .
Then I'm utterly delighted to give you something totally different in vibe (again) with CHOIR OF HATRED.
www.amazon.com/Choir-Hatred...
Then I'm utterly delighted to give you something totally different in vibe (again) with CHOIR OF HATRED.
www.amazon.com/Choir-Hatred...
April 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
If you liked The Salvage Crew (2020) and the sequel I spent four years on - Pilgrim Machines (2024) . . .
Then I'm utterly delighted to give you something totally different in vibe (again) with CHOIR OF HATRED.
www.amazon.com/Choir-Hatred...
Then I'm utterly delighted to give you something totally different in vibe (again) with CHOIR OF HATRED.
www.amazon.com/Choir-Hatred...
Going back to Origami Meteorite . . .
The notes just keep piling up
The notes just keep piling up
April 13, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Going back to Origami Meteorite . . .
The notes just keep piling up
The notes just keep piling up
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Authors on this list include @robertjbennett.bsky.social, @mattdinniman.bsky.social, @darylwriterguy.bsky.social, @aijiang.bsky.social, @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social, @jonmcgoran.bsky.social, @adapalmer.bsky.social, @marygthompson.bsky.social, and @yudhanjaya.bsky.social!
11 new sci-fi and fantasy books to check out this April
Another busy month for new books
transfer-orbit.ghost.io
April 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Thank you! Glad to see Pilgrim getting some love. PS: love the Bobiverse, and DCC is probably one of the greatest binge-reads I've read in the last ten years. Good taste!
Just finished Pilgrim Machines by @yudhanjaya.bsky.social The language and especially the dialogue is very poetic in nature. As a result it hits differently than traditional SciFi.
I don't remember the last time I was so engaged at the end of a story. It was profound
I don't remember the last time I was so engaged at the end of a story. It was profound
April 13, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Thank you! Glad to see Pilgrim getting some love. PS: love the Bobiverse, and DCC is probably one of the greatest binge-reads I've read in the last ten years. Good taste!
Nerd card:
📚 Fantasy & sci-fi
🔧 Mad engineering
🌱 Gardens and farm life content
🎧 Classical music and Lo-fi beats to chill/study to
🎮 Video games and dev. Think FFVII, Cassette Beasts, Pokémon, Rimworld
🎼 Linkin Park, Audiomachine, Yosi Horikawa, anything scored by Ramin Djawadi or Clint Mansell
📚 Fantasy & sci-fi
🔧 Mad engineering
🌱 Gardens and farm life content
🎧 Classical music and Lo-fi beats to chill/study to
🎮 Video games and dev. Think FFVII, Cassette Beasts, Pokémon, Rimworld
🎼 Linkin Park, Audiomachine, Yosi Horikawa, anything scored by Ramin Djawadi or Clint Mansell
March 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Nerd card:
📚 Fantasy & sci-fi
🔧 Mad engineering
🌱 Gardens and farm life content
🎧 Classical music and Lo-fi beats to chill/study to
🎮 Video games and dev. Think FFVII, Cassette Beasts, Pokémon, Rimworld
🎼 Linkin Park, Audiomachine, Yosi Horikawa, anything scored by Ramin Djawadi or Clint Mansell
📚 Fantasy & sci-fi
🔧 Mad engineering
🌱 Gardens and farm life content
🎧 Classical music and Lo-fi beats to chill/study to
🎮 Video games and dev. Think FFVII, Cassette Beasts, Pokémon, Rimworld
🎼 Linkin Park, Audiomachine, Yosi Horikawa, anything scored by Ramin Djawadi or Clint Mansell
Cats for sale!
Cat's out of the bag! I'm thrilled to have @yudhanjaya.bsky.social & @michaelbeale.bsky.social at Tor UK for the comedic fantasy A SORCERER'S TAIL: ✨ a clever cat 🐈 + his Paladin ⚔️ seeking honor, glory & 💰💰💰 in this Critical Role meets Terry Pratchett romp @erewhonbooks.bsky.social
March 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Cats for sale!
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Got this passage from “The Writing Contest” by the marvellous @yudhanjaya.bsky.social stuck in my head today. Will not leave me alone.
March 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Got this passage from “The Writing Contest” by the marvellous @yudhanjaya.bsky.social stuck in my head today. Will not leave me alone.
1.4 million words in Obsidian.
February 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
1.4 million words in Obsidian.
We’re packing up for the move tomorrow, but I couldn’t resist buying @charliejane.bsky.social’s Victories Greater than Death. Found it in the store amidst my search for microfiber cloth and gloves. Beautiful book (I have it on my Kindle) and the hardcover is stunning.
January 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
We’re packing up for the move tomorrow, but I couldn’t resist buying @charliejane.bsky.social’s Victories Greater than Death. Found it in the store amidst my search for microfiber cloth and gloves. Beautiful book (I have it on my Kindle) and the hardcover is stunning.
Maybe we’re taking this AI business too far
January 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Maybe we’re taking this AI business too far
You reckon the machine in Rage Against the Machine was a microwave? Because I’m definitely raging against this machine right now.
January 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
You reckon the machine in Rage Against the Machine was a microwave? Because I’m definitely raging against this machine right now.
Bravo.
Nobody has ever had to pass a law or issue an order to say that the earth moves around the sun, and yet it does so, despite any proclamations to the contrary.
You are real, I am real, we are here and we live, and even if they kill - including by degrees or decrees - they cannot undo our existence.
You are real, I am real, we are here and we live, and even if they kill - including by degrees or decrees - they cannot undo our existence.
this is the thing, they could pass a law saying the Earth is fucking flat (and if there were a way to make a buck on it, i'm sure they would.) but whatever happens in that court of the damned or thereafter, remember this-
our joy is fucking real. their laws arent.
and they will never take our joy!
our joy is fucking real. their laws arent.
and they will never take our joy!
January 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Bravo.
Good stuff. If you’re looking for some fantastic reads, go forth!
2025 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 1: Fiction Categories
It's that time of year when the editors and contributors of NOAF get together to recommend SFF to all and sundry. Today, we concentrate on fiction.
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/01/2025...
It's that time of year when the editors and contributors of NOAF get together to recommend SFF to all and sundry. Today, we concentrate on fiction.
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/01/2025...
2025 Nerds of a Feather Awards Recommended Reading, Part 1: Fiction Categories
The new year is upon us, and so, the wheel of the eternal cycle of awards turns once again to the spoke marked "recommendations". As in ever...
www.nerds-feather.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Good stuff. If you’re looking for some fantastic reads, go forth!
This is an excellent essay with a lot of food for thought. I keep thinking of Kafka’s or Satre’s various protagonists, where the story is as much about things happening to them as much as it is about them happening to things; where the story is about enduring more than inflicting.
On its 4th anniv, I'm reposting for bsky my most popular Twitter thread: a defense of the "inactive protagonist," which birthed the essay below, in exactly the way it was written.
But first I need to contextualize how and why it was written.
psychopomp.com/fantasy/augu...
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But first I need to contextualize how and why it was written.
psychopomp.com/fantasy/augu...
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We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Let me take you through the anatomy of an active protagonist, one that everyone can relate to. We’ll make our protagonist—we’ll call him John—young and healthy, male, of humble origins (perhaps he’s f...
psychopomp.com
January 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
This is an excellent essay with a lot of food for thought. I keep thinking of Kafka’s or Satre’s various protagonists, where the story is as much about things happening to them as much as it is about them happening to things; where the story is about enduring more than inflicting.