Vajra Chandrasekera
August 17, 1979 (age 46)
Birth place: Colombo, Sri Lanka
85 works in English-language magazines
| Date | Page | Type | Title | Magazine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2012 | |5 | Poem | Jörmungandr | Ideomancer, December 2012 |
| July 2013 | Short Fiction | Pockets Full of Stones | Clarkesworld Magazine, July 2013 | |
| November 2013 | |2 | Short Fiction | By Dawn's Barbed Light | Lakeside Circus, Year One, Issue One |
| November 2013 | Short Fiction | The Jackal's Wedding | Apex Magazine, November 2013 | |
| December 2013 | |2 | Short Fiction | The Calf | Three-Lobed Burning Eye, December 2013 |
| March 2014 | |8 | Poem | Megrim | Inkscrawl, March 2014 |
| March 2014 | Short Fiction | Perihelion | Cast of Wonders, Episode 118 | |
| March 2014 | 36 | Short Fiction | The Brack | Black Static, Issue 39, March-April 2014 |
| April 2014 | Short Fiction | On Being Undone by a Light Breeze | Lackington's, Spring 2014 | |
| April 2014 | Short Fiction | Slomo | Betwixt, Spring 2014 | |
| June 2014 | Short Fiction | The King of the World and I | Toasted Cake, #109 | |
| July 2014 | 31 | Short Fiction | "Ulder" | Daily Science Fiction, July 2014 |
| July 2014 | 18 | Short Fiction | Caul | Black Static, Issue 41, July-August 2014 |
| September 2014 | Short Fiction | Dharmas | Shimmer, September 2014 | |
| November 2014 | Short Fiction | Nidhoggr | Grievous Angel, November 30, 2014 | |
| March 2015 | |270 | Interview | Author Spotlight: Vajra Chandrasekera (Lightspeed, March 2015) | Lightspeed, March 2015 |
| March 2015 | |90 | Short Fiction | Documentary | Lightspeed, March 2015 |
| April 2015 | |4 | Poem | The Animals, Who Are In Your Mouth | Liminality, Spring 2015 |
| April 2015 | 6 | Short Fiction | The Rud Yard | Flapperhouse, Spring 2015 |
| June 2015 | Review | Rendezvous with Rama | Strange Horizons, 22 June 2015 | |
| June 2015 | Essay | The Strange Horizons Book Club Part 1: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke | Strange Horizons, 22 June 2015 | |
| June 2015 | Essay | The Strange Horizons Book Club Part 2: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke | Strange Horizons, 22 June 2015 | |
| July 2015 | Short Fiction | Stick a Pin in Me | Middle Planet, No. 1 | |
| September 2015 | |9 | Interview | Author Spotlight: Vajra Chandrasekera | Nightmare Magazine, September 2015 |
| September 2015 | Short Fiction | Pillow-Talk of the Late Oneirocalypse | Lackington's, Fall 2015 | |
| September 2015 | |1 | Short Fiction | The Sill and the Dike | Nightmare Magazine, September 2015 |
| November 2015 | Essay | The Strange Horizons Book Club: The Girl in the Road | Strange Horizons, 30 November 2015 | |
| February 2016 | |5 | Review | Binti | Strange Horizons, 29 February 2016 |
| March 2016 | |2 | Essay | Marginalia: The Problem of Other Minds | Strange Horizons, 7 March 2016 |
| March 2016 | |4 | Short Fiction | Song to the Sun | Truancy, March 2016 |
| April 2016 | |15 | Essay | Blue-Shifted Futures | Mithila Review, April 2016 |
| May 2016 | |1 | Essay | Marginalia: To Live and Die in Tenochtitlán | Strange Horizons, 9 May 2016 |
| May 2016 | |4 | Review | The Ballad of Black Tom | Strange Horizons, 23 May 2016 |
| July 2016 | |4 | Essay | Marginalia: You Spin Me Right Round | Strange Horizons, 4 July 2016 |
| July 2016 | |1 | Short Fiction | Sweet Marrow | Strange Horizons, 4 July 2016 |
| August 2016 | 6 | Short Fiction | Notes Toward a Performance: The Narrow Bridge, December 2001 | Shattered Prism, #2, August 2016 |
| September 2016 | |1 | Short Fiction | Applied Cenotaphics in the Long, Long Longitudes | Strange Horizons, 5 September 2016 |
| September 2016 | |2 | Essay | Marginalia: Skin Readings | Strange Horizons, 26 September 2016 |
| December 2016 | |4 | Essay | Azimuth: Fiction Department Update | Strange Horizons, 19 December 2016 |
| 2017 | |7 | Short Fiction | Merrick | Liminal Stories, #3, Spring/Summer 2017 |
| January 2017 | Essay | 2016 in Review Part 1 | Strange Horizons, 2 January 2017 | |
| April 2017 | 22 | Short Fiction | Left of Bang: Preemptive Self-Actualization for Autonomous Systems | Clarkesworld, April 2017 |
| May 2017 | Short Fiction | The Negation of the Negation of the Negation | Big Echo, May 2017 | |
| 2018 | |7 | Short Fiction | When Leopard's-Bane Came to the Door of Third Heaven | Liminal Stories, #5, Spring-Summer 2018 |
| April 2018 | |10 | Short Fiction | A Game of Lost and Found | Lackington's, Spring 2018 |
| May 2018 | |4 | Short Fiction | Terminus | Three-Lobed Burning Eye, May 2018 |
| June 2018 | Short Fiction | Heron of Earth | Clarkesworld, June 2018 | |
| July 2018 | |5.4 | Review | American War | Strange Horizons, 16 July 2018 |
| July 2018 | |5.3 | Review | Borne | Strange Horizons, 16 July 2018 |
| July 2018 | |5.6 | Review | Dreams Before the Start of Time | Strange Horizons, 16 July 2018 |
| July 2018 | |5.2 | Review | Gather the Daughters | Strange Horizons, 16 July 2018 |
| July 2018 | |5 | Essay | Rupture & Complicity: The 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award Shortlist | Strange Horizons, 16 July 2018 |
| July 2018 | |5.1 | Review | Sea of Rust | Strange Horizons, 16 July 2018 |
| July 2018 | |5.5 | Review | Spaceman of Bohemia | Strange Horizons, 16 July 2018 |
| August 2018 | |2 | Interview | Interview with Vajra Chandrasekera | Big Echo, August 2018 |
| August 2018 | |1 | Short Fiction | Ruin's Cure | Big Echo, August 2018 |
| December 2018 | |4 | Essay | Original Fiction in 2018 | Strange Horizons, 17 December, 2018 |
| December 2018 | |4 | Poem | Vajrakantakasalmali | Syntax & Salt, December 2018 |
| January 2019 | |9 | Interview | Author Spotlight: Vajra Chandrasekera (Nightmare Magazine, January 2019) | Nightmare Magazine, January 2019 |
| January 2019 | |2 | Short Fiction | On the Origin of Specie | Nightmare Magazine, January 2019 |
| March 2019 | 69 | Short Fiction | Running the Gullet | Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March-April 2019 |
| June 2019 | 221 | Short Fiction | Apologia | Future Science Fiction Digest, June 2019 |
| December 2019 | |3 | Essay | Azimuth: Original Fiction in 2019 | Strange Horizons, 16 December 2019 |
| January 2020 | |5 | Short Fiction | The Imperishable Birds | Fireside Magazine, January 2020 |
| May 2020 | 102 | Short Fiction | The Translator, at Low Tide | Clarkesworld, May 2020 |
| July 2020 | |10 | Short Fiction | The Roman Road | Fireside Quarterly, Summer 2020 |
| August 2020 | |9 | Interview | Author Spotlight: Vajra Chandrasekera | Nightmare Magazine, August 2020 |
| August 2020 | |2 | Short Fiction | Redder | Nightmare Magazine, August 2020 |
| November 2020 | |3 | Short Fiction | The Bombardier | Three-Lobed Burning Eye, November 2020 |
| May 2021 | 5 | Short Fiction | Peristalsis | The Deadlands, May 2021 |
| September 2021 | |1 | Essay | Azimuth: Welcome New Fiction Editors! | Strange Horizons, 27 September 2021 |
| March 2023 | |14 | Review | The Saint of Bright Doors | Lightspeed, March 2023 |
| April 2023 | |8 | Short Fiction | Rhizomatic Diplomacy | Apex Magazine, April 2023 |
| June 2023 | |10 | Interview | Decades of Aspiration: A Conversation with Vajra Chandrasekera | Clarkesworld, June 2023 |
| July 2023 | |9 | Short Fiction | Theses on the Scientific Management of Goetic Labour | Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2023 |
| December 2023 | 21|21.1 | Review | The Saint of Bright Doors | The New York Times Book Review, December 10, 2023 |
| December 2023 | 23|23.8 | Review | The Saint of Bright Doors | The New York Times Book Review, December 3, 2023 |
| December 2023 | 44|44.1 | Review | The Saint of Bright Doors | The New York Times Book Review, December 3, 2023 |
| January 2024 | |10 | Review | The Saint of Bright Doors | Strange Horizons, 29 January 2024 |
| April 2024 | |5.5 | Short Fiction | Redstarts in the Last Summer | Grimdark Magazine, April 2024 |
| May 2024 | |15 | Review | Rakesfall | Apex Magazine, May 2024 |
| August 2024 | 7|7.2 | Review | Rakesfall | The New York Times Book Review, August 25, 2024 |
| August 2024 | |11 | Review | Rakesfall | Interzone, August 2024 |
| August 2024 | |9 | Review | The Saint of Bright Doors | Interzone, August 2024 |
| February 2025 | |5 | Review | Rakesfall | Strange Horizons, 17 February 2025 |
2 English-language books
| Year | Type | Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Novel | The Saint of Bright Doors | Vajra Chandrasekera |
| 2024 | Novel | Rakesfall | Vajra Chandrasekera |