Rakesfall: Winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!

Author: Chandrasekera, Vajra

Science fiction

Published on 24 April 2025 by Rebellion Publishing Ltd. (Solaris) in the United Kingdom.

Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story.

Annelid and Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey throughout the ages. No world can hold them, no life can bind them, and they'll never leave each other behind.