S. L. Huang

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.