SUBODHANA WIJEYERATNE

PECULIAR TULIPS

The bounty hunter forgets why he was in the building the instant he walks out. He looks back through the entrance yawning doorlessly in the unmarked redbrick facade behind him. Then he looks up and down the alley. The sky is thick with grey-bellied clouds and the asphalt about him patched with mirroring patches of…

KINGDOM OF DOGS

Of the Green Globe It was an impossible memory, but it was always there. Of me on a high alpine slope, body broken and exhausted. Something goring me, over and over again. And then a glowing thing, green and glorious, descending from some high place to meet me. It reaches me just as life leaves…

A STAR’S TALE

Let me tell you the story of a star. Like all such stories, it is true. * Our star’s story begins in a vast cloud of dust, reclining across a distance incomprehensible to us slaves of gravity. Within it: calcium that was once bones, and the gold that was once circuits, and iron that once…

[ACADEMIC] MY LATEST PIECE OF SCI-FI ANALYSIS IS NOW AVAILABLE!

My piece of sci-fi analysis, ‘Less than Human: Visions of Future Evolution in Science Fiction, 1985-2015’ as just been published in the Keio University Hiyoshi Review of English Studies. Here’s the abstract: ‘As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the…

[FICTION] ‘THE GODS HAVE NO FACES’ IS OUT NOW!

My short story ‘The Gods Have No Faces’ has just been published in Mythaxis magazine. You can read it for free here! A short blurb from the publication: ‘One of the great joys of speculative fiction is World Building. As a writer, it’s creating new environments from, so to speak, the ground up; as a…

SUBODHANA WIJEYERATNE (page 3) — Triangulum: An Epic of the Nine Worlds of Surya now on sale!