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Speculative fiction author. Mathematician. Gunslinger.

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ZERO SUM GAME is Out in the World!

October 3, 2018 by slhuang

* 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!

Filed Under: Cas Russell Announcements, Fiction Announcements, Writing Announcements Tagged With: audio, cas russell, novels, tor, zerosumgame

Download the #FearlessWomen Sampler Free!

September 30, 2018 by slhuang

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

  • Vengeful by V.E. Schwab
  • Zero Sum Game by S.L. Huang
  • The Phoenix Empress by K Arsenault Rivera
  • Terran Tomorrow by Nancy Kress
  • Horizon by Fran Wilde
  • City of Broken Magic by Mirah Bolender

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

Filed Under: Cas Russell Announcements, Fiction Announcements, Writing Announcements Tagged With: cas russell, novels, tor, zerosumgame

Two New Anthologies, Plus a Reprint

September 15, 2018 by slhuang

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!

Filed Under: Fiction Announcements, Short Story Announcements, Writing Announcements Tagged With: bydegreesanddilatorytime, devouringtongues, disabledpeopledestroysf, dulceetdecorum, laksamedia, shadeswithinus, shortstories, swordandsonnet, uncannymagazine

#FearlessWomen Giveaway at The Mary Sue!

September 9, 2018 by slhuang

There’s a big #FearlessWomen giveaway going on at The Mary Sue right now, where you can win 7 books — including Zero Sum Game!

Deadline to enter is 9/10.

Filed Under: Cas Russell Announcements, Giveaway Announcements Tagged With: novels, tor, zerosumgame

Goodreads Giveaway

July 28, 2018 by slhuang

My publisher is running a giveaway of Zero Sum Game on Goodreads. Enter here!

Filed Under: Cas Russell Announcements, Giveaway Announcements Tagged With: novels, tor, zerosumgame

New Short Story, Boston Video, and Zero Sum Game Giveaway

June 29, 2018 by slhuang

I’m trying to get better about organizing my social media. I post whatever comes to mind on Twitter and Facebook, but those are kind of transient and it’s easy to miss stuff. And I put a lot in my newsletter but that only comes out once every couple of months. I haven’t even started to figure out Goodreads…

Anyway, THIS news space should really be a place that’s always up to date with my latest writer news, and I haven’t been using it that way. For example, I really should have posted about my story “Time Travel Is Only for the Poor” getting chosen for Rich Horton’s Year’s Best SF&F anthology and as an AnLab Finalist in Analog’s readers’ choice awards, or about “The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist” getting longlisted for the Tiptree. Why do I not post these things?! (Answer: I’m really bad at talking about myself. Er.)

Time to start! From here on I’m going to try to use this space as the up-to-date repository for my writer news. Twitter/Facebook will have news mixed in with other commentary and life stuff, and my newsletter will highlight only the most important information, as well as being more in-depth (plus sometimes special offers for subscribers).

So here’s the current news:

  • New story! My novelette “The Woman Who Destroyed Us” is now available in the Twelve Tomorrows anthology from MIT Press. Other authors in the anthology include Elizabeth Bear, Clifford V. Johnson, J. M. Ledgard, Liu Cixin, Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, Nnedi Okorafor, Malka Older, Sarah Pinsker, and Alastair Reynolds.
  • See me ON VIDEO! Want to see me in person but haven’t been able to? Check out this video of a promotional event I did with Elizabeth Bear and Ken Liu for Twelve Tomorrows. We’re joined by our editor, Wade Roush!
  • Giveaway Giveaway Giveaway! Tor is currently doing a #FearlessWomen giveaway, in which you can win EIGHT BOOKS from the #FearlessWomen authors, including Zero Sum Game. Two more days to enter!

From here on, I’m going to try to start being better about posting every time something happens, so this news feed can be a reference for anyone who’s trying to follow just the writing news. Still figuring all this out — bear with me! 🙂

Filed Under: Event Announcements, Fiction Announcements, Giveaway Announcements, Short Story Announcements, Signings, Writing Announcements Tagged With: analog, booksmugglers, new, novelettes, shortstories, thewomanwhodestroyedus, twelvetomorrows, video, zerosumgame

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