Previous SFF Author: David Chandler
Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has published over fifty short stories in magazines and anthologies including Analog, Black Static, and Clarkesworld, among others, and his short fiction has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His debut novel is THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023). He blogs at vajra.me and is @_vajra on Twitter.
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The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
The Saint of Bright Doors, a debut novel by Vajra Chandrasekera, opens with an absolutely killer beginning (literally, as the very young main character is being trained as an assassin) that had me sure I was going to love this novel. But while I did love parts of it, and was in the end happy I’d read it, I can’t say it lived up fully to the promise of that beginning.
But oh,
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Previous SFF Author: David Chandler
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