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Shi Lian Huang
Pen nameS. L. Huang
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS)
Genre
Notable works
Notable awardsHugo Award for Best Short Story, 2020

Website
www.slhuang.com

Shi Lian Huang, better known as S. L. Huang, is a Hugo-winning science fiction author, as well as the first woman to be a professional armorer in Hollywood.

Early life

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Shi Lian Huang, known as Lisa, is from New Jersey. She completed a degree in mathematics at MIT before moving to Los Angeles.[1][2] She experienced Hodgkin lymphoma as a child.

Career

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After moving to Hollywood to become a stuntwoman and weapons expert, Huang was diagnosed with breast cancer, which "derailed her physicality" for a time.[3] She turned to writing when unable to actively work on sets.[3]

She is known for her Cas Russell series, as well as her fantasy novella Burning Roses released in 2020. She began as a self-published author but was picked up by Tor Books.[4] The characters in the Cas Russell books, and the superintelligent abilities that they actuate, reflect Huang's background in the mathematical sciences.

Huang also writes short fiction, which won her the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2020 with "As the Last I May Know".[3][5] She has been published in a number of anthologies and magazines including Strange Horizons and The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016.[3][6][7]

Her work in television includes Battlestar Galactica and Raising Hope, as well as reality shows Top Shot and Auction Hunters.[3] She has trained actors such as Nathan Fillion, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jason Momoa, and Danny Glover.

Personal life

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Huang identifies as genderqueer.[8]

Awards

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Year Nominee Award Category Result Ref
2018 "Time Travel Is Only for the Poor" Analog Readers Poll Short Story Nominated (3rd Place)
2020 "As the Last I May Know" Hugo Award Short Story Won
2022 "Murder by Pixel" Nebula Award Novelette Shortlisted [9]
2023 Hugo Award Novelette Shortlisted [10]
Ignyte Award Novelette [11]
2023 The Water Outlaws Nebula Award Novel Shortlisted [12]
2024 Locus Award Best Fantasy Novel Shortlisted [13]
British Science Fiction Association Novel Longlist [14]
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Fiction Longlist [15]

Bibliography

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A summary bibliography was adapted from the isfdb.[16]

Russell's Attic

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  • —— (2014). Zero Sum Game (paperback ed.). self-published. pp. 1–328. ISBN 978-0996070034.
  • —— (2014). Half Life (ebook ed.). self-published. pp. 1–314. ISBN 978-0996070041.
  • —— (2015). Root of Unity (ebook ed.). self-published. ISBN 978-0996070065.
  • —— (2016). Plastic Smile (kindle ed.). self-published. pp. 1–294. ASIN B01GVPR39S.
  • —— (2016). Golden Mean. unpublished.

Cas Russell Series

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  • —— (2018). Zero Sum Game (hardcover ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–336. ISBN 978-1250180254.[17]
  • —— (2019). Null Set (hardcover ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–320. ISBN 978-1250180308.[18]
  • —— (2020). Critical Point (hardcover ed.). Tor Books. pp. 1–368. ISBN 978-1250180360.[19]
  • 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

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  • The River Judge (2024)
  • The Water Outlaws (2023)

Novellas

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Anthologies

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

Short fiction

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  • "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)

References

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  1. ^ "How Working in the US Film Industry Helped Me Write a Criminal Underworld". Criminal Element. 2 October 2018.
  2. ^ "S. L. Huang". MIT Technology Review.
  3. ^ a b c d e Ford, Anne. "Is There Anything S. L. Huang Can't Do?". Chicago magazine.
  4. ^ "Interview: S. L. Huang, author of the Cas Russell series".
  5. ^ "The Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards.
  6. ^ "S. L. Huang | Authors | Macmillan". US Macmillan.
  7. ^ "Calculated combat". MIT Technology Review.
  8. ^ "S. L. Huang's New Take on the Most Famous Chinese Novel You've Never Read in English: Announcing The Water Outlaws". Tor.com. 15 October 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2020. but one of my favorite parts about my retelling is the genderflipping—or as a genderqueer person, perhaps I should say genderspinning.
  9. ^ 'Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness at Science Fiction Writers of America; retrieved October 2, 2023
  10. ^ 2023 Hugo Awards at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved October 2, 2023
  11. ^ Announcing the Shortlist for the 2023 Ignyte Awards; by Molly Templeton, at Tor.com; published May 25, 2023; retrieved October 2, 2023
  12. ^ "2023 Nebula Awards". Nebula Awards. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  13. ^ "2024 Locus Awards Winners". Locus Magazine. Locus Magazine. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  14. ^ Mike, Glyer. "Second Round of 2023 BSFA Awards Nominations Begins". File770. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  15. ^ "2024 Winners". American Library Association. American Library Association. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  16. ^ "Summary Bibliography: S. L. Huang". isfdb.com. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  17. ^ previously self-published in 2014 in significantly different form
  18. ^ essentially a re-written Plastic Smile
  19. ^ finally a published version of Golden Mean
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