S. L. HUANG has a math degree from MIT and is a professional stuntwoman & armorer who has worked in Hollywood on Battlestar Galactica and a number of other productions. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Nature, and The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016. She is the author of the Cas Russell series, which includes Zero Sum Game, Null Set, and Critical Point
"""Exhilarating action sequences.... clever plotting and thrilling action."" --Publishers Weekly ""High-stakes action and emotional velocity . . . a sf thriller that fans will truly enjoy."" --Library Journal ""[Critical Point] starts with a bang and never lets up."" --Booklist Praise for Zero Sum Game: ""A smart, calculated action thriller that keeps the reader guessing.""--Den of Geek ""Trust us, trigonometry has never sounded so cool.""--Paste Magazine ""Fun and original.""--San Francisco Chronicle ""A fast-paced, darkly humorous read with a lot of heart for fans of action and urban fantasy, as well as lovers of Wolverine and other morally ambiguous, gritty superheroes with a mysterious past.""--Booklist, Starred Review ""Fast, furious, and adds up to one of the coolest, most crackin' reads this year.""--Chuck Wendig ""The best novel I've read this year; a heroine I fell in love with.""--Eric Van Lustbader, #1 New York Times bestselling author ""Cas Russell is who I want to be when I grow up. She kicks ass with her fists and her brain--a true twenty-first century action hero. I loved this book.""--Richard Kadrey ""Paced at a flat out sprint.""--Kate Elliott ""The smartest and thrillingest book you'll read all year.""--Ken Liu ""Intense, vivid, and insanely clever, with a great heroine--I couldn't put it down.""--Yoon Ha Lee, New York Times bestselling author ""This hard-to-put-down, action-packed sf debut is intelligent and entertaining. With Cas, Huang has created an indelible, flawed character who makes mathematics seem almost magical.""--Library Journal, Starred Review ""A paranormal thriller in which both the action and the questions don't stop....Cas is an awesome antiheroine...exciting, nasty fun...an excellent harbinger for books to come.""--Kirkus"