SL Huang

Speculative fiction author. Mathematician. Gunslinger.

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2018 Appearances

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I realized I need a page with all my appearances this year! Subject to change. But I’ll try to keep it up to date, so whenever you check it, it should have the latest information.

  • May: MADISON. Wiscon (May 25-27, 2018, Madison WI). Note: I will not be at the con on Monday the 28th. Schedule:
    • Friday May 25 at 2:30pm, Assembly: Redemption And Revenge: Antiheroines And Villainesses Taking Control (panel)
    • Friday May 25 at 9pm, Conference 1: What Does It Mean To Be A Good Fandom Citizen? (panel)
    • Saturday May 26 at 11am, Conference 1: Tasha Yar: Potential Unrealized (panel)
    • Saturday May 26 at 4pm, Conference 2: FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! This is a reading! I’ll be reading alongside Nino Cipri, Rebecca Kuang, and Suzanne Walker. 
    • Sunday May 27 at 10am, Conference 5: Epigenetics Book Club: What It Is & How It Will Affect SF Plotting (panel)
    • You’ll also be able to find copies of “The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist” in the Dealer’s Room, at the Glittership table! And I am happy to sign them.
  • June: NYC. BEA/BookCon (May 31 – June 3, NYC). I will be at BEA on Thursday and Bookcon on Saturday. Full schedule of all Tor events is here.
    • Thursday, May 31 at 10am, Room #1E16: Tor Presents: LGBTQ+ Authors on Gender and Identity in SFF (panel)
      • With Charlie Jane Anders, V.E. Schwab, and Seth Dickinson
    • Thursday, May 31, 11am – 12pm: I am signing at Tor Table #11 in the Autographing Area!
      • This was initially listed as Friday everywhere. IT IS THURSDAY!
    • Saturday, June 2 at 12:45pm, Room #1E16:  Tor Presents: LGBTQ+ Authors on Gender and Identity in SFF (panel)
      • With Charlie Jane Anders, V.E. Schwab, and Seth Dickinson
    • Saturday, June 2 at 1:30 PM, Room #1E10: #FearlessWomen (panel)
      • With Charlie Jane Anders, V.E. Schwab, and Seth Dickinson
    • Saturday, June 2, 3:45 – 4:45, I am signing at Tor Table #1 & #10 in the Autographing Area!
  • June: BOSTON. This Twelve Tomorrows promotional event, with Ken Liu and Elizabeth Bear (June 5, 2018, Boston, MA).
    • June 5, 2018 at 6pm, MIT Press Bookstore
  • July: NYC. Thrillerfest (July 10-14, New York City, NY).
    • Saturday, July 14 3:20 pm – 4:10 pm in Broadway: Fist, Knife, or Gun: The Action Toolbox (panel)
    • Saturday, July 14 5:10 pm – 5:40 pm in Uris/Juilliard: I’ll be signing ARCs!
  • August: SAN FRANCISCO. Writers With Drinks (August 11, San Francisco, CA). Reading!
  • August: SAN JOSE. Worldcon (August 16-20, 2018, San Jose CA).
    • Friday, Aug 17 11am – 12pm in Room 212D: The Power of Names — Naming Characters: Techniques & Thoughts (panel)
    • Friday, Aug 17 7pm – 8pm in Room 211A: Reading with Kate Elliott and Foz Meadows
    • Saturday, Aug 18 2pm – 3pm in Room 210A: Alien Minds: What Is Possible, and What Can We Do With Them? (panel)
    • Saturday, Aug 18 5pm – 6pm in Room 210C: Fantasy Canon from the Margins (panel)
    • Sunday, Aug 19 2pm – 3pm in Room 210E: The Paths to Publishing (panel moderator)
  • October: NYC. NYCC (October 4-7, 2018, New York City, NY).
    • Thursday, Oct 4 2-2:45pm at Tor Booth #2136: Signing!
    • Friday, Oct 5 5:15-6pm in Room #1A18: #FearlessWomen panel and signing! With Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz, VE Schwab, and K Arsenault Rivera.
  • November 13, 2018: NYC. 7pm at The Brooklyn Commons Cafe, 388 Atlantic Avenue. This reading with Serial Box for the New York Review of Science Fiction.
  • November 14, 2018: NYC. 7pm at Housing Works. This Tor Books: #FearlessWomen event with K Arsenault Rivera, Seth Dickinson, and moderated by Margot Atwell.

Half a Year of Updates

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It turns out that when I’m on Facebook and Twitter and have a newsletter, I become terrible at updating a blog. Oops. To stay more current, follow me those places!

I last posted here that the Cas Russell books are coming to Tor — YEEHAW! This year has been a whirlwind of preparation for the big re-release, including a series of stellar edits with my editor at Tor, Diana Gill.

I’ve also had two more short stories published in the meantime, which I neglected to post about at the time:

  • “Split Shadow” in the anthology Haunted Futures. Publishers Weekly said of my story: “the outstanding ‘Split Shadow’ by S.L. Huang, an essential portrayal of mental health attitudes and treatment.”
  • “Time Travel Is Only For the Poor” in Analog Science Fiction & Fact. This one’s a tale of when society starts trying to use technology to “fix” what it sees as social ills…
  • And “The Last Robot” also got an audio recording! Check it out here!

Finally, my writer friend Maddox Hahn and I started a charity Patreon we’re calling The Ink Harpies — once we hit $200, we’ll start releasing new short stories through it! I’m planning to post a bit more behind the scenes stuff about my publishing journey on the news feed as well.

So that’s what’s been happening — what’s coming up?

Zero Sum Game, of course, with the big re-release in October. But there’s more! I’ll have at least three short stories and novelettes dropping this year, including “The Woman Who Destroyed Us” in MIT Press’s Twelve Tomorrows anthology, alongside with stories by Elizabeth Bear, Liu Cixin, Ken Liu, Nnedi Okorafor, and more. And I’ll have novella in the “Hunting Monsters” universe coming out from The Book Smugglers!

Lastly, something really exciting — you can meet me in meatspace this year! I’ll be heading back to the United States, and you’ll be able to find me at the following events:

  • Wiscon (May 2018, Madison WI)
  • BookCon (June 2018, NYC), where I’ll be on this panel with Charlie Jane Anders, V.E. Schwab, and Seth Dickinson
  • This Twelve Tomorrows promotional event, with Ken Liu and Elizabeth Bear (June 2018, Boston)
  • Worldcon (August 2018, San Jose)
  • New York City Comic Con (October 2018, NYC)

(That list might change a bit as the year goes on — subscribe to my newsletter for up-to-date announcements.)

If you’re going to be at any of those, come say hi!

That’s the plan ramping up to my Zero Sum Game release. And after THAT…

After that, we shall see. 😀

(If you really, really want me to do an event near your town? Email me or tweet me and tell me so. No guarantees, but I can try!)

The Cas Russell Series is Coming to Tor!

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I’m late on posting this because… I forgot I have a news feed on my new site! BAD AUTHOR.

Anyway, I am VERY EXCITED to announce that the Cas Russell books are coming to Tor Books! I can’t wait to start working with my new editor, Diana Gill. Many, many thanks to my agent, Russell Galen, whose agenting prowess constantly astounds me.

Zero Sum Game will be re-released by Tor on September 18, 2018.* A lot of people are asking if this will delay the release of Book 5 — yes, sorry! Book 5 will no longer come out this year; it will be released for the first time by Tor. I can already tell it will be an even stronger and shinier book thanks to their expertise! However, I know some of you are disappointed about the wait, so I’m trying to come up with some treats I might send out to my current readers in the meantime. If you’d like to be kept up to date on everything, join my shiny new monthly newsletter here:

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(If you’re on the news-only mailing list already, you just got an invite link to opt in to the new newsletter, but I won’t switch you over unless you opt in.)

I am over the moon about this — I can’t wait to see where Cas will go with Tor!

* The important part of this release date is that it’s the day before Talk Like a Pirate Day, which means I CAN PROMOTE THE RELEASE IN PIRATE SPEAK. YESSSSSSSSSSSSS