Shi Lian Huang (published as S. L. Huang) is an American science fiction author.
Huang was born in New Jersey and completed a Bachelor of Mathematics at MIT. Huang later moved to Hollywood where they worked as a stunt performer and weapons expert on the television series Battlestar Galactica and Raising Hope, as well as reality shows Top Shot and Auction Hunters.
After being diagnosed with breast cancer, Huang left Hollywood to pursue writing. In 2020, Huang's short story "As the Last I May Know" won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Huang's novel Murder by Pixel was a finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Their novel The Water Outlaws, a gender flipped retelling of the classic Chinese novel Water Margin, was a 2024 Nebula Award finalist.
Huang is known for the novel Zero Sum Game and its sequels. Cas Russel, the series' protagonist, is a super-intelligent mercenary with abilities drawn from Huang's own background in the mathematics. Huang released the fantasy novella Burning Roses in 2020. Huang began as a self-published author but was picked up by Tor Books.
Huang identifies as genderqueer.
Awards Year Nominee Work Category Result . 2017 James Tiptree Jr. Award — 2018 Analog Readers Poll Short Story 2020 Hugo Award Short Story 2022 Nebula Award Novelette 'Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness at Science Fiction Writers of America; retrieved October 2, 20232023 Hugo Award Novelette 2023 Hugo Awards at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved October 2, 2023 Ignyte Award Novelette 2023 Nebula Award Novel 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Fiction BSFA Award Novel Dragon Awards Fantasy Novel Locus Award Fantasy Novel
Bibliography A summary bibliography was adapted from the ISFDB.
Russell's Attic
Cas Russell Series previously self-published in 2014 in significantly different form essentially a re-written Plastic Smile finally a published version of Golden Mean Stories: "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)
The Water Outlaws
The Water Outlaws (2023) The River Judge (2024, prequel novelette)
Novellas
Anthologies Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell-Eligible Authors (2016) with Kurt Hunt
Short fiction "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) Murder by Pixel (2022)
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