The Shape of My Name: A Tor.Com Original

Name: The Shape of My Name: A Tor.Com Original
Rating: 3.6666667461395264 (3 reviews)

Nino Cipri

Mar 2015 · Tor Books

3.7

3 reviews

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The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri is a time travel story about what it means to truly claim yourself.

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3.7

3 reviews

Sarah Wallace

December 14, 2020

I read this story in the anthology Transcendent (K M Szpara, 2016) and LOVED IT, and when I realised it was first published as a single by Tor I wanted to buy it to support the author... and to re-read it! It's a beautiful and clever piece about a family who have time machines in the bottom of their garden that will only work for them because of their DNA. And a trans child who grows into their identity and eventually uses the time machines to try and get approval from their mother. It was moving and sad and satisfying (full-circle) in the way that only time travel stories can be.

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About the author

Nino Cipri is a queer and genderqueer writer living in Chicago. Nino is a graduate of the 2014 Clarion Writers' Workshop, which they attended with the help of an Illinois Arts Council Professional Development grant. Their writing has been published in Tor.com, Fireside Fiction, Betwixt, Daily Science Fiction, In The Fray, Autostraddle, and Gozamos. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and radio features; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a backstage theater tech. Nino has also worked as a farmhand, bike mechanic, barista, mail clerk, dishwasher, bookseller, and gas station attendant.

One time, an angry person called Nino a verbal terrorist, which has since made a great T-shirt slogan.

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