S. L. Huang
Science fiction author and the first woman to be a professional armorer
Shi Lian Huang
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Pen name | S. L. Huang |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American |
Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology '07 (B.S. in Mathematics) |
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Hugo Award for Best Short Story
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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
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
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
Huang identifies as genderqueer . [8]
Awards
Major awards
Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
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2020 | Hugo Award | Hugo–Best Short Story | "As the Last I May Know" | Won |
Other
Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
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2018 | Analog Readers Poll | Best Short Story | “Time Travel Is Only for the Poor” | Nominated (3rd Place) |
Bibliography
A summary bibliography was adapted from the isfdb. [9]
Russell's Attic
- — — (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
- — — (2018). Zero Sum Game (hardcover ed.). Tor Books . pp. 1–336. ISBN 978-1250180254 . [10]
- — — (2019). Null Set (hardcover ed.). Tor Books . pp. 1–320. ISBN 978-1250180308 . [11]
- — — (2020). Critical Point (hardcover ed.). Tor Books . pp. 1–368. ISBN 978-1250180360 . [12]
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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)
Novellas
- — — (2020). Burning Roses (hardcover ed.). Tor.com . pp. 1–160. ISBN 978-1250763990 .
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)
References
- ↑ "How Working in the US Film Industry Helped Me Write a Criminal Underworld" . Criminal Element . 2 October 2018.
- ↑ "S. L. Huang" . MIT Technology Review .
- 1 2 3 4 5 Ford, Anne. "Is There Anything S. L. Huang Can't Do?" . Chicago magazine .
- ↑ "Interview: S. L. Huang, author of the Cas Russell series" .
- ↑ "The Hugo Awards" . The Hugo Awards .
- ↑ "S. L. Huang | Authors | Macmillan" . US Macmillan .
- ↑ "Calculated combat" . MIT Technology Review .
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"S. L. Huang's New Take on the Most Famous Chinese Novel You've Never Read in English: Announcing The Water Outlaws"
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Tor.com
. 15 October 2020
. Retrieved
7 November
2020
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but one of my favorite parts about my retelling is the genderflipping—or as a genderqueer person, perhaps I should say genderspinning.
- ↑ "Summary Bibliography: S. L. Huang" . isfdb.com . Retrieved 7 September 2020 .
- ↑ previously self-published in 2014 in significantly different form
- ↑ essentially a re-written Plastic Smile
- ↑ finally a published version of Golden Mean
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