SL Huang

Speculative fiction author. Mathematician. Gunslinger.

Writing Announcements

ZERO SUM GAME is Out in the World!

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* SOUNDS KLAXONS *

The Tor re-release of Zero Sum Game is OUT OUT OUT OUT today! today! today!

You can get it in hardcover! Ebook! Audio read by Lauren Fortgang! It’s a “book of the month” at both Barnes and Noble and Amazon! GO GO GO LITTLE BOOK GO!

What Other People Say…

“The best novel I’ve read this year; a heroine I fell in love with.”—Eric Van Lustbader, #1 New York Timesbestselling author

“Cas Russell is who I want to be when I grow up. She kicks ass with her fists and her brain—a true twenty-first century action hero. I loved this book.”—Richard Kadrey

“This book lines up like a perfect, elegant equation — it’s fast, furious, and adds up to one of the coolest, most crackin’ reads this year. ”—Chuck Wendig, NYT bestselling author of Invasive and Star Wars: Aftermath

“The smartest and thrillingest book you’ll read all year.”—Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings and The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“Paced at a flat out sprint, Zero Sum Game deploys an astonishing array of weapons together with the prickly charms of its math genius protagonist on her turbulent journey toward trust and connection.”—Kate Elliott

“Intense, vivid, and insanely clever, with a great heroine—I couldn’t put it down. If only more authors with math degrees used them like this!”—Yoon Ha Lee

“A fast-paced, darkly humorous read with a lot of heart for fans of action and urban fantasy, as well as lovers of Wolverine and other morally ambiguous, gritty superheroes with a mysterious past.”—Booklist, Starred Review

“This hard-to-put-down, action-packed sf debut is intelligent and entertaining. With Cas, Huang has created an indelible, flawed character who makes mathematics seem almost magical.”—Library Journal, Starred Review

“A paranormal thriller in which both the action and the questions don’t stop….Cas is an awesome antiheroine…exciting, nasty fun…an excellent harbinger for books to come.”—Kirkus

The blurb…

A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang’s Zero Sum Game introduces a math-genius mercenary who finds herself being manipulated by someone possessing unimaginable power…

Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight, and she’ll take any job for the right price.

As far as Cas knows, she’s the only person around with a superpower…until she discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own. Someone who can reach directly into people’s minds and twist their brains into Moebius strips. Someone intent on becoming the world’s puppet master.

Cas should run, like she usually does, but for once she’s involved. There’s only one problem…

She doesn’t know which of her thoughts are her own anymore.

And HERE BE ALL THE BUY LINKS! Wheeeeeeeee BOOK!

Download the #FearlessWomen Sampler Free!

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Tor is releasing a #FearlessWomen sampler with excerpts from all of the following books:

Hey look one of those is by me! Go here to download the sampler for free!

Two New Anthologies, Plus a Reprint

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I’m thrilled to announce the recent publication of two brand-new original stories!

First, Laksa Media’s Shades Within Us features my story “Devouring Tongues,” which is about culture and language loss. I’m honored to be in this anthology, which is all about migration and crossing borders.

You can read an excerpt of my story at Tor.com here!

Second, I have a story “Dulce et Decorum” in Sword & Sonnet, an anthology all about battle poets. The story’s already getting great reviews — although apparently it keeps making people cry.

And finally, my story “By Degrees and Dilatory Time” was reprinted in Uncanny’s Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. Check out that kick-ass table of contents!