S. L. Huang

S. L. Huang is a Hugo winning science fiction author as well as the first woman to be a professional armorer in Hollywood.

Biography[]

Shi Lian Huang, known as Lisa, is from New Jersey and she completed a degree in mathematics at MIT before moving to Los Angeles.^[1][2] She is known for her Cas Russell series and her fantasy Burning Roses is due out in 2020. She began as a self-published author but was picked up by Tor Books.^[3] Huang writes short fiction which won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2020 with “As the Last I May Know”.^[4][5] She has been published in a number of anthologies and magazines such as Strange Horizons and The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016.^[6][5][7]

Huang has also worked as a stuntwoman and firearms expert. Her work includes “Battlestar Galactica” and “Raising Hope” as well as “Top Shot” and “Auction Hunters.” ^[5] She has worked with actors such as Nathan Fillion, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jason Momoa, and Danny Glover.

Personal life[]

Huang identifies as genderqueer.^[8]

Bibliography[]

Cas Russell Series^[9]

• Zero Sum Game (2018, previously self-published in 2014 in significantly different form)
• Null Set (2019)
• Critical Point (2020)
• "A Neurological Study on the Effects of Canine Appeal on Psychopathy, or Rio Adopts a Puppy" (2015)
• "An Examination of Collegial Dynamics as Expressed Through Marksmanship, or Ladies' Day Out" (2015)

Novellas^[9]

• Burning Roses (2020)

Anthologies^[9]

• Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell-Eligible Authors (2016) with Kurt Hunt

Short Fiction^[9]

• Hunting Monsters (2014)
• By Degrees and Dilatory Time (2015)
• My Grandmother's Bones (2016)
• The Documentarian (2016)
• The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist (2016)
• The Last Robot (2017)
• Split Shadow (2017)
• Time Travel Is Only for the Poor (2017)
• The Woman Who Destroyed Us (2018)
• Dulce et Decorum (2018)
• Devouring Tongues (2018)
• As the Last I May Know (2019)
• The Million-Mile Sniper (2020)

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