I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize!

Thank you to everyone who's shared & donated so far for your generosity. But Archita's stuck at 69% to her goal and has had only 1 donation since I last shared 2 days ago. Please keep sharing & donating so she can get some security in this terrible time.

Among other things, about Beckett's science-fictional play KRAPP'S LAST TAPE https://t.co/jC0N5Sdy38

🏆 Congrats to Vajra Chandrasekera (@_vajra)! His novel Rakesfall won the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, recognizing sci-fi and fantasy. Borrow the winner and finalists from this year and past years: https://t.co/SLqNfsKMrZ

"Rakesfall is an extraordinary achievement in science fiction, and a titanic work of art.” Congratulations Vajra Chandrasekera (@_vajra) on the award of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! https://t.co/uWDCBSrorY

I'm doing an online interview hosted by Huxley & Hiro Bookstore …iiiin about forty minutes—it's free and open to anyone! Drop in if you're interested and have a free hour or two. Details here:

Congratulations to #Rakesfall, winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. 🌙 Kudos to Vajra Chandrasekera and thank you to all the readers who made this possible!

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera, recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for "Rakesfall"! Learn more about Chandrasekera's novel in this free podcast episode! https://t.co/S8GFuu2BVk

Vajra Chandrasekera has won the fourth annual Ursula K. LeGuin Prize, honoring outstanding science fiction and fantasy, for RAKESFALL. The novel was published last year by @TorDotComPub. @_vajra https://t.co/aha7v4St0h

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Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera for winning the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize in Fiction for RAKESFALL! 🌠🌠🌠 ICYMI here is our deep dive together into the book: Audio📻🔥: https://t.co/iMy2KChCIV

Vajra Chandrasekera's Rakesfall has won the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Award for Fiction. Congratulations!! https://t.co/pCJvuoJJCF

Congratulations to @CullmanNYPL Fellow Vajra Chandrasekera (@_vajra), winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for fiction! His novel, 'Rakesfall,' is cited as "an extraordinary achievement in science fiction, and a titanic work of art." Learn more: https://t.co/kYuYKHCMOy

I urge everyone to seek out every book on the shortlist. You'll find each of them worth your time, & each of them a significant, beautiful part of this accursed century's literature. Whatever happens, great art still exists, against all odds, & that is to be celebrated.

Congratulations @_vajra for winning the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for his ferociously visionary RAKESFALL! & congratulations to all the finalists; this was an enormously challenging decision to make, & one not made lightly:

vajra writing a proper le guin award acceptance speech here & nailing why our odious tech overlords are so Torment Nexus-pilled

And here's the official announcement!

I wrote it here

Here are some of the films and TV series we'll discuss in November on our end-of-the-year bonus episode of Afterimages, with Stephen Volk, Vincenzo Natali, Ramsey Campbell, Vajra Chandrasekera, Jack Sholder, Jen Fawkes, William Boyle, Jeff Jensen, Peter Atkins and others...🎥🎞📺

Been thinking about why I loved Rakesfall so much. It isn't just how hallucinatory it is, or how meta it is, or weird. It's because of its mythic aspect. It's not just a confrontation of how myth can be used for power, but the mythic is alive and concurrent in it. 1/2