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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko

@filiphdz.bsky.social
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writer. fiction in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed + others. associate editor at Escape Pod. repped by Joshua Bilmes. Clarion West '19. #1 lurantis fan. he-ish. filiphdz.com

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Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social · 18h
My article on Pokopia and the climate crisis is out in LARB today! @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social What do Bill, fictional inventor of the Pokémon storage system, and Joanna Russ, sf legend, have in common? lareviewofbooks.org/article/poke...
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Adri Joy @adrijjy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My first creative project in 2-ish years is here! Joyreads is a 1-page zine featuring 8 tiny pages of reviews, analysis and traced dog pictures, and a longer back page review. It can be read digitally or printed onto A4 for the intended tactile experience! Download here: arifel.itch.io/joyreads
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
back on my bullshit
A screenshot of the Hollow Knight Silksong game completion screen. The Steel Soul achievement, for beating the game without dying, has just been unlocked.
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 07/08/2026
Eugenia has already said here everything I was going to say about this. One thing I will add is that the lasting thing I gained following this project was a deep hatred for AI slop and LLMs as anyone who has heard me speak on ths subject since knows. I saw how the sausage was made and rejected it.
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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In 2022, before Chatgpt and everything that came next, I participated in this study. It was framed as a research on a new tool that I could try and offer my opinion on. I didn't know that it was trained on copyrighted material.
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Wordcraft Writers Workshop
The Wordcraft Writers Workshop is a collaboration between Google's PAIR and Magenta teams, and 13 professional writers. Together we explore the limits of co-writing with AI.
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
For a fiction author there can be no glory so great, no award so gleaming, no praise that so warms the heart, as unsolicited fan art
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
any opportunity to shout about this book! simultaneously a page-turning legal thriller & one of the most interesting, thematically dense science fiction novels I’ve ever read. just sublime.
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
let me have a go: THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS has a protagonist you will want to hold in your hand and protect from all the horrors of the world but uh-oh maybe your hand isn't big enough
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
READ THIS BOOK
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
a flashback to the first short story I ever wrote... seven years ago, I think? can't decide if that sounds like a lot or not. anyway. I still like it a lot.
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
a drama in two acts: you know when you go to preorder a book and discover you’ve already preordered it? I just went to cancel my SFWA membership and it was already cancelled
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
goddamn.
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
ok I know it's annoying when someone is like "this book is so good" and then it turns out the book isn't out for like five months but this book is SO GOOD. playful and utterly devastating. if there's justice in the world it will join Story of Your Life in the pantheon of linguistic SF. go! preorder!
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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Catching up on charming flash from @filiphdz.bsky.social on @lightspeedmagazine.com : www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
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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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Cherae @clclarkwrites.com · 20/11/2025
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.
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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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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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
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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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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
“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?
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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!
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
welp. reached the end of hades 2. all I can say is maybe supergiant needed six and a half years too.
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
all the women want melinoë. even the ones who aren't actually in the game.
A screenshot from Hades 2. Scylla is on-screen in her Vow of Rivals getup: a goth tentacle woman in black and purple. Her dialogue box describes her as the Scourge of the Seas, which is honestly a bit of a stretch, but she IS sort of hot if you're into vaguely pathetic musicians with one-sided rivalries. Her dialogue reads: "Pff, no! Why would I feel any of those things, especially about you, lady? It's called a fictionalized work? And besides, Jetty mostly wrote that one."A screenshot from Hades 2. Arachne is on-screen - she's an adorable, vaguely anthropomorphic spider. (Seriously, I'm terrified of spiders and I still want to cuddle her, that's how cute she is.) In the background is one of her beautiful silk weavings - orange with purple-white flowers. Her dialogue is, like, right out of Jane Austen: "I've kept on thinking, my friend... about how I've been drawn to you. Like a fly to one of my webs... Except I mean to catch them, and I don't think you've meant to do the same to me."A screenshot from Hades 2. Aphrodite is on-screen - the Goddess of Love, pink-haired, entirely nude but with her hair just barely preserving her modesty. There's a heart-shaped loop in one strand of hair because she's extra like that. She also has a huge fuck-off spear and a shield, because she IS at war. She's dazzling. Anyway. Her dialogue reads: "Were you expecting someone far less beautiful, or did you somehow know it was me? Perhaps you could hear my heart beating all the way from where you are!"A screenshot from Hades 2. Artemis is on-screen, looking about a million times more relaxed and confident than she ever did in the first game. Her three little bird friends are in attendance and she's got a teasing smile for Melinoë. Her dialogue reads: "Oh! Have all my tales of Callisto piqued your interest there, Melinoë? Because I'm open to sharing, and I know SHE is."

I should clarify for the record that Artemis and Melinoë have an entirely platonic relationship, but Artemis DOES have a thing with Nemesis, who maybe has a thing with Melinoë, who has a thing with like three other people, and honestly the result is a truly marvelous polycule that this margin is too narrow to contain.
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
haha remember when I said "see you in the DLC", actually I meant "see you in the speedrun"
Hollow Knight Silksong game completion screen showing a completion time of 4 hours, 20 minutes, 56 seconds. The Speedrunner achievement has just been unlocked.
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"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...
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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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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
And I'm done! Now it's time to catch my breath before Hades 2 drops next week.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 17/09/2025
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...
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introductory post | Kai Ashante Wilson
Get more from Kai Ashante Wilson on Patreon
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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)
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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
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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"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.
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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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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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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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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Kurizawa Nanami 🍅 / クリザワナナミ🍅 @nanamichestnut.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
#Mawile
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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!
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
if anyone needs me... maybe don't?
A screenshot of Steam downloading Hollow Knight: Silksong.
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
SILK SOOOOOOOOOOONG
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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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Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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.
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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.
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Tim Chawaga @timchawaga.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
SALVAGIA is out. It's officially pub day! Come join me on the yoreshore. 🐊🚀🌴
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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Happy #bookbirthday to SALVAGIA by @timchawaga.bsky.social! 🎉🤿 "This deft debut makes the perfect page-turner for anyone seeking a laugh, a thrill, and perhaps, even a cry." —@bookstr.bsky.social awfulagent.com/ebooks/salva...
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Salvagia – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
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N. A. Dawn, Author @nadawn.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Cunning, taut, plenty of sharp edges. @filiphdz.bsky.social’s razor-blade of a suspense tale in @lightspeedmagazine.com checks all the boxes for a roguishly good time - tempo, risks, stakes, skulduggery. A critical success for sleight of hand with a conscience. #sff #scifi #shortstories #fiction
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I’ve been reading stories for escape pod for three years now and this is one of my favourites in that time. read it! (or listen to it)
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
teshima art museum, followed closely by the other setouchi museums
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
since contract fuckery is once again in the air I thought I would remind everyone that I wrote a whole story about that and also there is a heist. in case anyone could use some catharsis. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
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The Heist for the Soul of Humanity - Lightspeed Magazine
The simulation blossomed around Nadja Gavrić like a hypercube unpacking itself into three dimensions. The plain metal floors of the Roses’ cargo bay turned the shiny white of faux marble. The walls cl...
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I am begging y'all we NEED the mushrooms and the unions
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
the most successful I have ever been at getting someone to watch a show
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 21/06/2025
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Cover reveal!! 🐇🎀❤️‍🔥 So good to put a name to the heart. So good to put a face to the name. Ty Stillhouse Press for this creepy, frenzied, sour-candy beauty—the book cover of my dreams and best nightmares. TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE will be available for preorder starting this Friday 6.6.25!
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Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko @filiphdz.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
when I came out of Fury Road the first time I thought, well, that was obviously the best action film I've ever seen, the important question is whether it's the best FILM I've ever seen. similar feelings about this book. it's obviously the best magical school novel; is it the best fantasy novel?
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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I don't generally like to do self-promo but we've been chatting about novellas from other presses today and I feel like I should probably just plug my column about... exactly that... at @ancillaryreview.bsky.social. Just in case anyone is interested. Here you go.
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Small Press Dispatch – Ancillary Review of Books
Posts about Small Press Dispatch written by Roseanna
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