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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 12h

It didn't win, but this was one of very few awards to even nominate it (along with the Ignytes iirc)

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 12h

Thank you!!

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 14h

One of the tragically few awards to justly recognize the greatness of THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER, for instance (yes I will always be peevish about this)

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 14h

The Le Guin Prize for Fiction shortlist for 2025 is excellent, as it has been every year so far! www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

Ursula K. Le Guin — 2025 Prize for Fiction

www.ursulakleguin.com

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 14h

yes I rewatched it just now and got uncanny valleyed by my own face

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 14h

in case you missed it, there's a clip of me talking about RAKESFALL over at the Le Guin Prize's insta! In which I talk for just over two minutes and explain nothing whatsoever, HOWEVER you can see me make many humourous microexpressions www.instagram.com/p/DPUUxEHDUDg/

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 17h

So long as there is an internet and breath in my body, those stories will be there indeed. ❤️

Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 22h

For people who love weird short stories—Did you know the incredible Lackington's archive is still online? You should read it now while we still have an internet lackingtons.com

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Unfound Peoples Videotechnic ◡◶▿ @unfoundvideo.bsky.social · 21h

Chuffed for László Krasznahorkai winning the Nobel. Might mark it by re-reading one of his sentences over the weekend.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 21h

saaame

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 22h

For people who love weird short stories—Did you know the incredible Lackington's archive is still online? You should read it now while we still have an internet lackingtons.com

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 22h

You should buy this even when it's NOT discounted!

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 2d

THE DEVOURERS is lightly discounted on Bookshop.org again, stick it to Prime Day if it is indeed Prime Day.

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Jul 11

Bookshop.org (still blocked where I am for some reason) is having an anti-amazon-prime sale, & you can my books there, including THE DEVOURERS, my queer dark fantasy/mythic realist debut about shapeshifters in the 17th c Mughal Empire & modern India, slightly discounted. It won a Lambda Award.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 2d

THE DEVOURERS is lightly discounted on Bookshop.org again, stick it to Prime Day if it is indeed Prime Day.

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Jul 11

Bookshop.org (still blocked where I am for some reason) is having an anti-amazon-prime sale, & you can my books there, including THE DEVOURERS, my queer dark fantasy/mythic realist debut about shapeshifters in the 17th c Mughal Empire & modern India, slightly discounted. It won a Lambda Award.

The Devourers: A Novel

A Novel

bookshop.org

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 23h

It’s like my library somehow knew that these 2 valiant authors were each published in Lackington’s once upon a merry, given that both titles were released from my hold queue on the same day. 🎉

Finally plunging in, @premeemohamed.com and @vajra.me! My expectations are suitably atmospheric.

Cover for Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera

Cover for The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 1d

help support small press!

help support death magazines!

we're just out here trying to do some cool shit, like:

@vajra.me is guest editing OCTOBER and JANUARY deadlands DOUBLE VAJRA !

with CUSTOM DOUBLE ART BY @carlydraws.bsky.social !!

upcoming NOVELETTE (April 2026) by @dianadima.com !!!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10d

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

www.wheresyoured.at

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 2d

apparently everyone who works on bsky is a clankerwanker. that explains a lot

hailey @hailey.at · 5d

an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you’d agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing “dna” with “bits” doesn’t make it ok

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 8d

i’m completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 3d

There are a few signed copies of RAKESFALL you can get for supporting The Deadlands! psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 3d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 3d

RSS is, and I say this without hyperbole, an incredibly useful tool for psychological independence in the current environment. Newsblur, as Vajra suggests, is good, I use Feedbin, there are others. Most remarkably easy to set up.

Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 3d

Speaking of the well-deserved death of social media, I've started using Newsblur as my new RSS reader (had to clean up a depressingly large number of dead links, including to sites that still publish but no longer have RSS feeds) and that does still in fact provide a source of good internet

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Ketracel Black @ketracelblack.blacksky.app · 3d

He looks like Mindy Kalling's brother trying to get into a white fraternity

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 3d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 5d

If you spend all your time looking at an app where everything looks the same, you might forget that the web still exists and people are still blogging out there.

4x8 tile of 32 different blogs with different designs and personalities.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 3d

in which Dan very controversially claims that “a novella is just a novel that is slightly short”

Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 3d

📣 NEW CRITICAL FRIENDS!

In a new ep of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social SFF criticism podcast, I talk with @redfernjon.bsky.social and Nileena Sunil about books that might be longer, and others that could be shorter.

How to read a text that offers too little, or too much, stuff? Some ideas.

Critical Friends Episode 16: Length and Breadth

Dan Hartland is joined by Redfern Jon Barrett and Nileena Sunil to discuss those novels that feel too sure or not long enough: what's behind that feeling we have that a text is lacking something, o…

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 3d

📣 NEW CRITICAL FRIENDS!

In a new ep of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social SFF criticism podcast, I talk with @redfernjon.bsky.social and Nileena Sunil about books that might be longer, and others that could be shorter.

How to read a text that offers too little, or too much, stuff? Some ideas.

Critical Friends Episode 16: Length and Breadth

Dan Hartland is joined by Redfern Jon Barrett and Nileena Sunil to discuss those novels that feel too sure or not long enough: what's behind that feeling we have that a text is lacking something, o…

strangehorizons.com

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 10d

End of the month, and that means: the link round-up is upon us! Some cool reviews, some great interviews, and some insightful essays from around the web:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/29/w...

Wow! Signal: September 2025

Jake Casella Brookins The Ancillary Review of Books was founded to address the radical possibilities of criticism, particularly in the context of the radical possibilities of speculative fiction. N…

ancillaryreviewofbooks.org

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 10d

This round up is always good, but I glanced at it this afternoon and decided to spend some time with it this evening, and @casella.bsky.social found a bumper crop of thoughtful writing specifically about criticism and culture in the face of the here and now.

Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 10d

End of the month, and that means: the link round-up is upon us! Some cool reviews, some great interviews, and some insightful essays from around the web:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/29/w...

Wow! Signal: September 2025

Jake Casella Brookins The Ancillary Review of Books was founded to address the radical possibilities of criticism, particularly in the context of the radical possibilities of speculative fiction. N…

ancillaryreviewofbooks.org

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