Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

"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

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.

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Likewise! Almost as clever as the Soora Pappa dubs!

The new Asterix series on Netflix is fantastic. Clever, beautiful, and has that classic Goscinny×Uderzo vibe.

This is fantastic idea.

Congrats, man!

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.

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Thanks! I’ve yet to see sweeping changes in the moment from unexpected links (mostly because I linked almost all of this manually). But I do find myself exploring the sub-graphs and dreaming new associations and things into existence. It makes it easier for me to load all that context into my mind.

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.

Thanks, Joe!

I hope not to disappoint!

Thanks!

A Practical Guide to Evil? Gets really good once the author finds his legs.

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.

Bought! I could use a trek back towards wry humor. I've been binging Night Vale and this looks like a natural next step before my inevitable Discworld re-run.

This time, the PCS universe shows you its military side. And possibly its haunted side.
If you like the thought of guns, Buddhist riddles in space, and possibly insane mercenaries posing as a catering company, come along for the ride! Lovely to have you here. Let's go shoot someone.

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...

Going back to Origami Meteorite . . .
The notes just keep piling up

I have a joke about Odysseus, but it'll take a decade and a GPS to arrive.

11 new sci-fi and fantasy books to check out this April Another busy month for new books

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!

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!

Please note: I don't follow people whose content is mostly present-day politics and its weathervane shifts. After years of being a journalist and working in public policy, I'm exhausted with such content. I no longer want that stuff competing for attention with the things I find joy in. Thank you.

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

Cats for sale!

You might like Pilgrim Machines as well.

Quote runs: “and then someone got a bot to write a perfect Heinlein novel, and the world was never the same again. I knew that day how painters felt when they realised photography had taken over.”

Got this passage from “The Writing Contest” by the marvellous @yudhanjaya.bsky.social stuck in my head today. Will not leave me alone.

A screenshot of an Obsidian interface. On the right is graph of many dots - notes - forming a circle; some connect to each other. On the left is a list of those notes.

1.4 million words in Obsidian.