Shi Lian Huang | |
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| Pen name | S. L. Huang |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) |
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| Notable awards | Hugo Award for Best Short Story, 2020 |
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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 . [1]
After being diagnosed with breast cancer, Huang left Hollywood to pursue writing. [1] In 2020, Huang's short story "As the Last I May Know" won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. [1] [2] Huang's novel Murder by Pixel was a finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. [3] 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. [4]
Huang identifies as genderqueer. [5]
| Year | Nominee | Work | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 2017 | "The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist" | James Tiptree Jr. Award | — | Longlisted | [6] |
| 2018 | "Time Travel Is Only for the Poor" | Analog Readers Poll | Short Story | Finalist–3rd | [7] |
| 2020 | "As the Last I May Know" | Hugo Award | Short Story | Won | [2] |
| 2022 | "Murder by Pixel" | Nebula Award | Novelette | Finalist | [8] |
| 2023 | Hugo Award | Novelette | Finalist | [3] | |
| Ignyte Award | Novelette | Finalist | [9] | ||
| 2023 | The Water Outlaws | Nebula Award | Novel | Finalist | [10] |
| 2024 | Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence | Fiction | Longlisted | [11] | |
| BSFA Award | Novel | Longlisted | [12] | ||
| Dragon Awards | Fantasy Novel | Nominated | [13] | ||
| Locus Award | Fantasy Novel | Finalist–3rd | [14] |
A summary bibliography was adapted from the ISFDB. [15]
but one of my favorite parts about my retelling is the genderflipping—or as a genderqueer person, perhaps I should say genderspinning.