S. L. Huang: Difference between revisions

| gender=[[genderqueer]]<ref name="tor_oct2020">{{Cite web |title=S. L. Huang's New Take on the Most Famous Chinese Novel You've Never Read in English: Announcing The Water Outlaws |work=Tor.com |date=15 October 2020 |access-date=7 November 2020 |url= https://www.tor.com/2020/10/15/book-announcements-s-l-huang-the-water-outlaws/ |quote=but one of my favorite parts about my retelling is the genderflipping—or as a genderqueer person, perhaps I should say genderspinning. }}</ref>

'''S. L. Huang''' (rhymes with "wrong"<ref name="slhu_Pres">{{Cite web |title=Press Kit |author=S.L. Huang |work=slhuang.com |date= |access-date=3 January 2021 |url= https://www.slhuang.com/press-kit/}}</ref>) is a Hugo winning science fiction author as well as a professional armorer in Hollywood.

Huang completed a degree in mathematics at MIT before moving to Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |title=How Working in the US Film Industry Helped Me Write a Criminal Underworld |url=https://www.criminalelement.com/how-working-in-the-us-film-industry-helped-me-write-a-criminal-underworld/ |website=Criminal Element |date=2 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=S. L. Huang |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s-l-huang/?preview=true |website=MIT Technology Review |language=en}}</ref> They are known for their Cas Russell series. Huang began as a self published author but was picked up by Tor Books.<ref name="nerds">{{Cite web |title=Interview: S.L. Huang, author of the Cas Russell series |last=Johnson |first=Andrea |work=nerds of a feather, flock together |date=20 April 2020 |access-date=5 January 2021 |url= http://www.nerds-feather.com/2020/04/interview-sl-huang-author-of-cas.html}}</ref> Huang writes short fiction which won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2020 with “As the Last I May Know”.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Hugo Awards |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/ |website=The Hugo Awards}}</ref><ref name="chic">{{cite web |last1=Ford |first1=Anne |title=Is There Anything S. L. Huang Can’t Do? |url=http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-July-2019/Is-There-Anything-SL-Huang-Cant-Do/ |website=Chicago magazine |language=en}}</ref> They have been published in a number of anthologies and magazines such as Strange Horizons and ''The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016''.<ref>{{cite web |title=S. L. Huang {{!}} Authors {{!}} Macmillan |url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/slhuang/ |website=US Macmillan}}</ref><ref name="chic"/><ref name="Couch">{{Cite web |title=Calculated combat |last1=Couch |first1=Christina |work=MIT Technology Review |date=24 October 2019 |access-date=5 January 2021 |url= https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/10/24/238457/calculated-combat/}}</ref>

Huang has also worked as a stuntwoman and firearms expert. Their work includes ''Battlestar Galactica'' and ''Raising Hope'' as well as ''Top Shot'' and ''Auction Hunters''. <ref name="chic"/> They have worked with actors such as Nathan Fillion, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jason Momoa, and Danny Glover. Huang has had cancer more than once.<ref name="thei_Auth">{{Cite web |title=Author Interview: S.L. Huang on Null Set |author= |work=The Illustrated Page |date=9 July 2019 |access-date=5 January 2021 |url= https://www.theillustratedpage.net/2019/07/09/author-interview-s-l-huang-on-null-set/}}</ref><ref name="syfy">{{cite web |last1=Krishna |first1=Swapna |title=Stuntwoman, armorer, and author S. L. Huang talks Zero Sum Game and the power of math |url=https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/stuntwoman-armorer-and-author-sl-huang-talks-zero-sum-game-and-the-power-of-math |website=SYFY WIRE |language=en |date=23 October 2018}}</ref>

;Cas Russell Series<ref name=isfdb>{{cite web |title=Summary Bibliography: S. L. Huang |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?216131 |website=isfdb.com |accessdate=7 September 2020}}</ref>