SUBODHANA WIJEYERATNE

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…

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Before the boy kills his father the two of them arrive at a pair of vast steel blast doors. An aperture yawns in the wall to the left and inside are two loaves of bread the size of their forearms and a bowl of steamed vegetables in a pastry case. They extract their meal, gingerly…

SUBODHANA WIJEYERATNE (page 6) — The Islands and the Stars out now!