Vajra Chandrasekera (17 August, 1979 in Colombo)[1] is a Sri Lankan author known for his work in fantasy.
[2] He has described his first job at the age of eighteen as "writing fake product reviews of computer hardware, on a web 1.0 site run by this guy I knew who had a great scam getting free stuff sent to us by manufacturers and charging for ads on the website," later becoming a non-fiction editor in Sri Lanka.
Chandrasekera has stated that "as a scene, science fiction has to be able to fight those battles" concerning how the genre inspires technological development, saying that "you know the Torment Nexus meme?
[6] As well, his role as an editor for Strange Horizons during the six consecutive years that it was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine meant that he was "one of a group of approximately eighty people who were collectively nominated (...), depending on how you choose to do the arithmetic and whether you count group nominations as legitimate in the first place, which not everyone does", with the result that in 2023 he humorously described himself as "7.5% of a Hugo nominee by volume".
[2] The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has praised his "ability to weave disparate narratives into a kaleidoscopic whole with satisfying conclusions.