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Tales From The Stone Lotus: Tales of Love, Loss, and Adventure - from this World, and from Others Kindle Edition

bySubodhana Wijeyeratne(Author),Sara Gothard(Illustrator)Format:Kindle Edition
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A boy living in a labyrinth wonders what lies beyond its black walls. The gossamer-winged inhabitants of an alien world dream of being remembered for all time. A little boy abandoned by his parents must make his way to a river he is not even sure exists. These, and other stories, feature in this collection of ten literary science fiction and fantasy shorts set in worlds both distant, and nearby.

Evocative, cryptic, atmospheric, and moving, and inspired by the writing of Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, and James Tiptree, Jr., Tales from the Stone Lotus. is author Subodhana Wijeyeratne's first complete collection.

These are tales of exploration, of heartbreak, of love, and of survival. Tales of aliens, and humans, and things in between. Tales from the Stone Lotus.

Author Subodhana Wijeyeratne has been writing science fiction for over ten years and had work appear in LampLight, The Colored Lens, Expanded Horizons, and Liquid Imagination. This is his first collection of short stories. You can find his blog at www.suboworld.net

Also featuring original art by Sara Gothard. Find more on her work at www.gothard.carbonmade.com
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"In these fantastical stories, in which we meet labyrinth-dwellers, assassins, regular folks, and a Messenger from God, Subodhana Wijeyeratne has achieved a stirring collection that entertains and asks questions. The author's cinematic descriptions and dynamic plots won't let you put Tales from the Stone Lotus down."-Maria Pinto, 'The Missing Slate' Author of the Month

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Author Subodhana Wijeyeratne has been writing science fiction for over ten years and had work appear in LampLight, The Colored Lens, Expanded Horizons, and Liquid Imagination. This is his first collection of short stories. You can find his blog at suboworld.net

Also featuring original art by Sara Gothard. Find more on her work at gothard.carbonmade.com

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Born in the United Kingdom to Sri Lankan parents, Subodhana Wijeyeratne is Assistant Professor of History at Purdue University. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he researched Japan’s postwar rocket and space programs. His work explores the intersections of technology, politics, and identity in modern East Asia, with publications in Technology and Culture, Historia Scientiarum, and Pacific Affairs. Supported by the D. Kim Foundation, Japan Foundation, and Reischauer Institute, he has presented at the American Historical Association, History of Science Society, and Society for the History of Technology. Wijeyeratne is also an award-winning fiction writer. His novel Triangulum was a Philip K. Dick Award finalist, and his stories have appeared in Expanded Horizons, Lamplight Magazine, and The Colored Lens. His short story “They Meet in the Wall” won the 2018 Mariner Award.

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So far, I've read about half of the short stories in Tales from the Stone Lotus and they were quite an interesting read. Wijeyeratne has a unique style of writing - he includes vivid description and details, yet at the same time, I feel he intently leaves out certain info so that you can complete the picture with your own imagination. His stories are unique as well! From the heartwarming story of "Noelle", to the dark struggles of "The Reign of Queen Tzol", to the story of life in "The Best of All Seasons", Wijeyeratne provides a variety of tales to read - it's as if they give you a glimpse into his creative and complex mind. I can't wait to read the rest of the stories!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2017
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    So far, I've read about half of the short stories in Tales from the Stone Lotus and they were quite an interesting read. Wijeyeratne has a unique style of writing - he includes vivid description and details, yet at the same time, I feel he intently leaves out certain info so that you can complete the picture with your own imagination. His stories are unique as well! From the heartwarming story of "Noelle", to the dark struggles of "The Reign of Queen Tzol", to the story of life in "The Best of All Seasons", Wijeyeratne provides a variety of tales to read - it's as if they give you a glimpse into his creative and complex mind. I can't wait to read the rest of the stories!
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    Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2017
    So far, I've read about half of the short stories in Tales from the Stone Lotus and they were quite an interesting read. Wijeyeratne has a unique style of writing - he includes vivid description and details, yet at the same time, I feel he intently leaves out certain info so that you can complete the picture with your own imagination. His stories are unique as well! From the heartwarming story of "Noelle", to the dark struggles of "The Reign of Queen Tzol", to the story of life in "The Best of All Seasons", Wijeyeratne provides a variety of tales to read - it's as if they give you a glimpse into his creative and complex mind. I can't wait to read the rest of the stories!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2017
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    interesting
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2017
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    Not my usual kind of read. Stone Lotus is a collection of illustrative short stories. I typically stick with detective novels or non-fiction biographies because I like relatable, down-to-earth type stories. Still, I enjoyed these stories because of the depth of description, plenty of action, and a lot of food for thought. I find myself turning over the various plots in my mind. If I could, I would ask the author to explain his inspiration for several of the characters and storylines. Wijeyeratne's voice is unique and impressionable. Can't wait to see what he comes up with next. Highly recommend.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2017
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    Wijeyeratne explores the possibilities available in science fiction, through what could have been, and at times, what seems to have already existed, which he has recorded as historian. The writing is fantastic. Each word is important, making me slow my pace to match the subtleties of the text. This speed is fitting for the way he writes - often a gentle buildup, suffused with melancholy, that at the end often left me devastated yet hopeful. In many of his shorts, he eschews the violence that's often a staple of sci-fi, and instead teases out the emotions and logic of the heart and mind.

    Despite these being short stories, each world is fully thought out, and it seemed like I was glimpsing the lives of a few in a much larger society. Whether that's creatures discovering self-awareness, humans that are flustered and confused, or feudal cow-beasts surviving a winter, it seemed that all of these places had a grand history, and I wanted to know more. What came before? What happened after? I'd love to read a full novel to know.
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2017
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    An excellent read!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2017
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    A vivid new world.
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2017
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    This is a wonderful collection of stories that paint a vivid picture of alternative worlds and relatable characters. The writing is almost like watching a movie; the descriptions are that good.
    I really like the Opal Gates - viva la revolution!
    As Kazanuhr Falls is great! You get the sense that there is a deep history of an entirely new world. It’s also a story that really resonated with me.
    The art for each story is beautiful!
    I love this book. I'm definitely going to read it again. The stories are layered in a way that allows you to see new ideas with each time you read it.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2018
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    Wonderful imagery. Lyrical. Loved each short story.

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  • Gnasher
    5.0 out of 5 starsA new landscape of the fantastic
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2017
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    A certain degree of trepidation, given that this is the first time I've read anything by Subodhana Wijeyeratne ... and thus a massive relief and a great sense of pleasure in the fact these stories are uniformly excellent. They achieve the first responsibility, of hooking the reader, and the second, much greater one, of adjusting to the form: as short stories go these are quite brilliant. Wijeyeratne is very economical, very efficient, in setting up his tales, avoiding the temptation to overelaborate, and consequently leaving the reader with a wonderful sense of the weight of the worlds he describes whilst adhering to the succinct logic of the fable or myth or fairy tale. To me this is best illustrated in the 'fantasy' stories, 'My Lady, the Lily', 'As Kazahnuhr Falls', or 'The Reign of Queen Tzol', which are genuine masterpieces. As a fan of such fiction, they are my favourites here, and could be anthologised without apology alongside the work of acknowledged masters. You could easily see these plots and characters fleshed out into novels, sequences even, if you didn't mind diminishing returns, but you would obviously lose the very quality that makes them so compelling here. The more obviously 'science fictional' stories also deliver in abundance, even on narratives that are worked you might think to the point of exhaustion - say in the dystopia of 'The Opal Gates', or the apocalyptic landscapes of 'Journey to the River of Sphinxes' or 'Fourteen Days' . Wijeyeratne's characters have a yearning to escape, and to escape from class, caste and forms of enslavement that is consistently compelling. Like Metavi in 'The Labyrinth', who feels that 'no matter how far one travelled, one would not escape [the Labyrinth] or its rules or the terms of existence it imposed upon you'. That love is one of the ways that one might escape might appear trite, but Wijeyeratne's characters fight to preserve the reality and the dream of love in ways that stick in one's mind. To say something new here is very, very difficult, but Wijeyeratne's breadth of vision and his pleasingly undidactic extension of the landscape of the fantastic is tremendously enjoyable. They are beautifully illustrated too, even though a paperwhite kindle isn't going to do the chapter titles justice. If I was Wijeyeratne's editor, I'd only pick up on the handful of occasions when the writing could be tauter still (no-one needs both words of 'tangled mess' for example) but these are very few, and what is really remarkable is how dreamlike and poetic these stories are. I will risk saying, daring hyperbole, that the best of his stories here have a Le Guin quality: and what higher recommendation might there be than that?
  • Nathaniel Kent
    5.0 out of 5 starsIntriguing visions of other worlds
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2018
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    I have a certain picture of science fiction and fantasy in my mind, and it was a genuine delight to have that picture stretched and expanded by Wijeyeratne’s stories in this collection. Months after reading it, certain images still stick with me vividly - the life cycle of the planet in its elliptical orbit and the doomed legacy of its inhabitants; the caravan drawn by apes, bearing the denizens of a great city desperately away as the snow encroaches; the giant maze inhabited by young people who long to explore beyond their boundaries. “My Lady, The Lily” entrances with its allusions to classical Indian mythology, while “As Kazanuhr Falls” feels like the opening chapter for a sprawling fantasy epic that I am dying to read more of.
    As a friend of the author I admit to feeling some trepidation before I started reading the book - what if I didn’t like it? I was delighted to find that this was never a problem. These visions of different worlds entranced me and drew me forward and I can’t wait to pick up what Wijeyeratne writes next.
  • bk240
    5.0 out of 5 starsyou'll forget they're not human - until they do something like spreading their wings to fly away
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2017
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    A planet with an eliptical orbit; a migration in caravans pulled by teams of apes; a rebel uprising in a subterranean world: Plunge your head into a bucket of technicolour science fiction fantasy. Each civilisation is made vivid with layers of history and just the right amount of detail. The characters are so strong and relatable, you'll forget they're not human - until they do something like spreading their wings to fly away.

    The stories all linger in my mind - I think now I will go back and read them again.

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