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    Remembering Turinam
    Remembering Turinam
    Remembering Turinam
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    Remembering Turinam

    By N.A. Ratnayake

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    "Remembering Turinam" tells the tale of Salai, a scholar-monk who lives in Turinam, a colonized territory occupied by the Rytari Republic. Salai returns to his childhood home to reconcile with his dying grandfather, who fought in defense of Turinam during the Rytari invasion many decades ago. He comes with turbulent questions — he leaves with a mission.

    The Future Fire published this story as part of the colonialism-themed, speculative fiction anthology "We See A Different Frontier" in September 2013. This short story received an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois’s "The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Thirty First Edition".

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherN.A. Ratnayake
    Release dateJan 28, 2015
    ISBN9781310057588
    Remembering Turinam
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    N.A. Ratnayake

    Prior to feeling the call to become an educator, Nalin A Ratnayake was a aerospace propulsion research engineer. He holds a B.S.E. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and has published 11 peer-reviewed technical papers on supersonic air-breathing propulsion, environmentally responsible aviation technologies, and advanced access-to-space systems. After changing careers, Nalin completed an M.Ed. through the Boston Teacher Residency, focusing his studies on the connections between scientific literacy and social justice, particularly in the context of urban schools and communities. After five years of teaching Physics and Engineering at an urban public high school in Boston, Nalin recently returned to research engineering, at a research center near Norfolk, Virgina. Nalin writes fiction under the name N.A. Ratnayake. His speculative fiction has appeared in Crossed Genres Magazine as well as the post-colonial SF anthology We See A Different Frontier. His short story Remembering Turinam received an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Thirty-First Edition. As an engineer, writer, and educator, Nalin is strongly committed to exploring ideas for creating a more positive and sustainable future for all people. You can find Nalin on Twitter as @quantumcowboy, and on the web at www.naratnayake.com.

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      Remembering Turinam - N.A. Ratnayake

      Remembering Turinam

      by N.A. Ratnayake

      Story copyright 2013 by Nalin A. Ratnayake

      Smashwords Edition

      Cover art copyright 2014 by Stephanie Hoover

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      Outside, the sun was setting. Salai’s journey had started in the cold peaks of the Dorhal Mountains, at the Temple of Heremi built on where the River Khem found its source. He had descended with the Khem to the west, into the secluded valley-basin sandwiched between the curve of the Dorhal range and the Western Sea. Salai had grown nervous as he approached the the Rytari checkpoint at the bottom of the mountain pass. Brown-skinned Turians like Salai were easy to spot among the Rytari and were often stopped. But the soldiers had noted Salai’s simple robe, the orange sash at his waist, and the single small pack on his back, and waved him on without so much as a word.

      Salai had left the Khem the previous day and tracked north of the river, down from the irrigated, tea-growing communes of the foothills into the lower, rolling hills of farmland that made up the northern part of the valley. It was late summer. The grass was dry and a deep reddish brown, replaced in patches

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