Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko
@filiphdz.bsky.social
writer. fiction in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed + others. associate editor at Escape Pod. Clarion West '19. #1 lurantis fan. he-ish. filiphdz.com
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The Place I Came To - Lightspeed Magazine
The place I came from, the port across the sea of stars, the isle town edged with sturgeon scales, was built on basalt. The place I came to, the city at the centre of the field of view, the once-ringe...
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My new story in Lightspeed is free to read today! It’s under 1000 words and it has one of my favourite first paragraphs I’ve written. A fabulous prize to the first person who can guess which video game I was playing while writing this! What’s stopping you? www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
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Catching up on charming flash from @filiphdz.bsky.social on @lightspeedmagazine.com : www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
The Place I Came To - Lightspeed Magazine
The place I came from, the port across the sea of stars, the isle town edged with sturgeon scales, was built on basalt. The place I came to, the city at the centre of the field of view, the once-ringe...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Catching up on charming flash from @filiphdz.bsky.social on @lightspeedmagazine.com : www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
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Another @filiphdz.bsky.social story!
Also it’s the perfect size for if you’re short on time but want to read something beautiful with an ache of truth, as his work always is.
Also it’s the perfect size for if you’re short on time but want to read something beautiful with an ache of truth, as his work always is.
The Place I Came To - Lightspeed Magazine
The place I came from, the port across the sea of stars, the isle town edged with sturgeon scales, was built on basalt. The place I came to, the city at the centre of the field of view, the once-ringe...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Another @filiphdz.bsky.social story!
Also it’s the perfect size for if you’re short on time but want to read something beautiful with an ache of truth, as his work always is.
Also it’s the perfect size for if you’re short on time but want to read something beautiful with an ache of truth, as his work always is.
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A beautiful reflection on being an immigrant and whether the things we leave behind can be replaced with new ones in our heart. In the end, something will always be missing.
by @filiphdz.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com
by @filiphdz.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com
The Place I Came To - Lightspeed Magazine
The place I came from, the port across the sea of stars, the isle town edged with sturgeon scales, was built on basalt. The place I came to, the city at the centre of the field of view, the once-ringe...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A beautiful reflection on being an immigrant and whether the things we leave behind can be replaced with new ones in our heart. In the end, something will always be missing.
by @filiphdz.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com
by @filiphdz.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com
“Glass Bottle Dancer” was the very first story I read at Clarion West. I was the youngest student there; Celeste was the oldest, and she’d just written the most goddamn incredible story in like two days, and for a little while I was like, what the fuck am I doing here?
Heartbroken to say the least. My dear friend and CW classmate Celeste Rita Baker has passed away. Words aren't enough to describe what an amazing, talented, warm, and loving human being she was. The world is so much emptier now. 💔
November 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“Glass Bottle Dancer” was the very first story I read at Clarion West. I was the youngest student there; Celeste was the oldest, and she’d just written the most goddamn incredible story in like two days, and for a little while I was like, what the fuck am I doing here?
watching too much anime has the side effect of all my media analysis is suddenly anime. watch: @emilytesh.net's the incandescent is like if someone made a power fantasy anime about teachers fighting demons, and then a decade later someone made a deconstruction of that anime, but it's the same book
October 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
watching too much anime has the side effect of all my media analysis is suddenly anime. watch: @emilytesh.net's the incandescent is like if someone made a power fantasy anime about teachers fighting demons, and then a decade later someone made a deconstruction of that anime, but it's the same book
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So delighted to share that THE SENTENCE will now be coming out in a global edition with Saga Press in early 2027, newly-titled THE FIFTH INFLECTION.
Deeply grateful to @jjbker.bsky.social for taking it on, and to Sareena Kamath for acquiring it for Saga. Excited to take this novel outside India!
Deeply grateful to @jjbker.bsky.social for taking it on, and to Sareena Kamath for acquiring it for Saga. Excited to take this novel outside India!
October 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
So delighted to share that THE SENTENCE will now be coming out in a global edition with Saga Press in early 2027, newly-titled THE FIFTH INFLECTION.
Deeply grateful to @jjbker.bsky.social for taking it on, and to Sareena Kamath for acquiring it for Saga. Excited to take this novel outside India!
Deeply grateful to @jjbker.bsky.social for taking it on, and to Sareena Kamath for acquiring it for Saga. Excited to take this novel outside India!
welp. reached the end of hades 2. all I can say is maybe supergiant needed six and a half years too.
September 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
welp. reached the end of hades 2. all I can say is maybe supergiant needed six and a half years too.
all the women want melinoë. even the ones who aren't actually in the game.
September 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
all the women want melinoë. even the ones who aren't actually in the game.
haha remember when I said "see you in the DLC", actually I meant "see you in the speedrun"
September 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
haha remember when I said "see you in the DLC", actually I meant "see you in the speedrun"
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"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."
@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):
reactormag.com/with-the-ser...
@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):
reactormag.com/with-the-ser...
With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor
Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."
@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):
reactormag.com/with-the-ser...
@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):
reactormag.com/with-the-ser...
And I'm done! Now it's time to catch my breath before Hades 2 drops next week.
I’ve been playing Silksong with a “no giving up on bosses” policy to make it a little harder for myself, which has been really interesting from a game design perspective. Gonna thread some thoughts on each of the bosses I’ve fought so far. Please mute this thread if you’re avoiding spoilers!
September 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
And I'm done! Now it's time to catch my breath before Hades 2 drops next week.
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There are only two kinds of serious writers/readers of SFF today: those who ferociously love the work of Kai Ashante Wilson and want to see a great deal more of it in the world, and those who have not yet read him. Good news, everyone!
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introductory post | Kai Ashante Wilson
Get more from Kai Ashante Wilson on Patreon
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September 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
There are only two kinds of serious writers/readers of SFF today: those who ferociously love the work of Kai Ashante Wilson and want to see a great deal more of it in the world, and those who have not yet read him. Good news, everyone!
www.patreon.com/posts/introd...
www.patreon.com/posts/introd...
my silksong boss liveblog is nearing the end of the game! come join me for the final stretch. (spoilers for boss names & mechanics + a few thematic/minor plot things throughout)
I’ve been playing Silksong with a “no giving up on bosses” policy to make it a little harder for myself, which has been really interesting from a game design perspective. Gonna thread some thoughts on each of the bosses I’ve fought so far. Please mute this thread if you’re avoiding spoilers!
September 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
my silksong boss liveblog is nearing the end of the game! come join me for the final stretch. (spoilers for boss names & mechanics + a few thematic/minor plot things throughout)
I think Team Cherry and Supergiant are conspiring to prevent me, specifically, from finishing my novel there's no other explanation
September 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I think Team Cherry and Supergiant are conspiring to prevent me, specifically, from finishing my novel there's no other explanation
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Filip once again delivering top quality short fiction, including:
1 - sexy sexy alliteration
2 - a gut punch of feels about leaving small places and not going back
3 - his usual distressingly hungry-making food descriptions
1 - sexy sexy alliteration
2 - a gut punch of feels about leaving small places and not going back
3 - his usual distressingly hungry-making food descriptions
My new story in Lightspeed is free to read today! It’s under 1000 words and it has one of my favourite first paragraphs I’ve written. A fabulous prize to the first person who can guess which video game I was playing while writing this! What’s stopping you? www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
The Place I Came To - Lightspeed Magazine
The place I came from, the port across the sea of stars, the isle town edged with sturgeon scales, was built on basalt. The place I came to, the city at the centre of the field of view, the once-ringe...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Filip once again delivering top quality short fiction, including:
1 - sexy sexy alliteration
2 - a gut punch of feels about leaving small places and not going back
3 - his usual distressingly hungry-making food descriptions
1 - sexy sexy alliteration
2 - a gut punch of feels about leaving small places and not going back
3 - his usual distressingly hungry-making food descriptions
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"It is limiting, to be from somewhere small—you feel it even when you like it."
New gorgeous, rhythmic, perfectly bite-size work from @filiphdz.bsky.social: "The Place I Came To" in @lightspeedmagazine.com.
New gorgeous, rhythmic, perfectly bite-size work from @filiphdz.bsky.social: "The Place I Came To" in @lightspeedmagazine.com.
The Place I Came To - Lightspeed Magazine
The place I came from, the port across the sea of stars, the isle town edged with sturgeon scales, was built on basalt. The place I came to, the city at the centre of the field of view, the once-ringe...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"It is limiting, to be from somewhere small—you feel it even when you like it."
New gorgeous, rhythmic, perfectly bite-size work from @filiphdz.bsky.social: "The Place I Came To" in @lightspeedmagazine.com.
New gorgeous, rhythmic, perfectly bite-size work from @filiphdz.bsky.social: "The Place I Came To" in @lightspeedmagazine.com.
My new story in Lightspeed is free to read today! It’s under 1000 words and it has one of my favourite first paragraphs I’ve written. A fabulous prize to the first person who can guess which video game I was playing while writing this! What’s stopping you? www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
The Place I Came To - Lightspeed Magazine
The place I came from, the port across the sea of stars, the isle town edged with sturgeon scales, was built on basalt. The place I came to, the city at the centre of the field of view, the once-ringe...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
My new story in Lightspeed is free to read today! It’s under 1000 words and it has one of my favourite first paragraphs I’ve written. A fabulous prize to the first person who can guess which video game I was playing while writing this! What’s stopping you? www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
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September 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I’ve been playing Silksong with a “no giving up on bosses” policy to make it a little harder for myself, which has been really interesting from a game design perspective. Gonna thread some thoughts on each of the bosses I’ve fought so far. Please mute this thread if you’re avoiding spoilers!
September 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I’ve been playing Silksong with a “no giving up on bosses” policy to make it a little harder for myself, which has been really interesting from a game design perspective. Gonna thread some thoughts on each of the bosses I’ve fought so far. Please mute this thread if you’re avoiding spoilers!
if anyone needs me... maybe don't?
September 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
if anyone needs me... maybe don't?
this is an excellent essay & one thing it highlights is that pronouncing names correctly simply isn’t that hard. all it requires is a willingness to listen & to not assume ahead of time that it's hopeless to even try
Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"
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#Worldcon
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#Worldcon
August 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
this is an excellent essay & one thing it highlights is that pronouncing names correctly simply isn’t that hard. all it requires is a willingness to listen & to not assume ahead of time that it's hopeless to even try
SILK
SOOOOOOOOOOONG
SOOOOOOOOOOONG
August 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
SILK
SOOOOOOOOOOONG
SOOOOOOOOOOONG
thread. every hugo ceremony opens with some nice platitudes about how we’re gathered together to celebrate the finalists and every hugo ceremony pulls some version of this shit. I’m so tired.
There’s nothing like attending Worldcon in-person as team @khoreo.bsky.social's representative, as one of the actual Finalists for Best Semiprozine, only for our masthead to be entirely skipped over, while everyone else’s names and mastheads were read in full, exactly as it was on the program sheet.
Had a great time at Worldcon meeting new and old faces! Thank you @emelkrishnan.bsky.social for letting me be your plus one! Glad we could trauma bond over our masthead being skipped again. I look forward to next year!
August 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
thread. every hugo ceremony opens with some nice platitudes about how we’re gathered together to celebrate the finalists and every hugo ceremony pulls some version of this shit. I’m so tired.
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As respectfully as possible, if you are a Hugo MC it is your actual job to make sure you have the pronunciations of the people you are celebrating down. If you don’t get given a list from Worldcon you need to make your own or demand one in time to learn.
This is egregious.
This is egregious.
August 17, 2025 at 5:40 AM
As respectfully as possible, if you are a Hugo MC it is your actual job to make sure you have the pronunciations of the people you are celebrating down. If you don’t get given a list from Worldcon you need to make your own or demand one in time to learn.
This is egregious.
This is egregious.
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Look, I’m sorry, but the shambles of title and name mispronunciations in this Hugo award ceremony is not funny. GRRM is sitting by his phone waiting for an apology.
August 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Look, I’m sorry, but the shambles of title and name mispronunciations in this Hugo award ceremony is not funny. GRRM is sitting by his phone waiting for an apology.