Shi Lian Huang, better known asS. L. Huang, is aHugo-winningscience fiction author, as well as the first woman to be a professionalarmorer inHollywood.

Shi Lian Huang, known as Lisa, is fromNew Jersey. She completed a degree in mathematics atMIT before moving to Los Angeles.^[1][2] She experiencedHodgkin lymphoma as a child.

After moving toHollywood to become astuntwoman and weapons expert, Huang was diagnosed withbreast 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 novellaBurning Roses released in 2020. She began as a self-published author but was picked up byTor Books.^[4] The characters in the Cas Russell books, and thesuperintelligent abilities that they actuate, reflect Huang's background in themathematical sciences.

Huang also writes short fiction, which won her theHugo 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 includingStrange Horizons andThe Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016.^[3][6][7]

Her work in television includesBattlestar Galactica andRaising Hope, as well as reality showsTop Shot andAuction Hunters.^[3] She has trained actors such asNathan Fillion,Sean Patrick Flanery,Jason Momoa, andDanny Glover.

Huang identifies asgenderqueer.^[8]

A summary bibliography was adapted from the isfdb.^[18]

• —— (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 unpublished.

• —— (2018).Zero Sum Game (hardcover ed.).Tor Books. pp. 1–336.ISBN 978-1250180254.^[19]
• —— (2019).Null Set (hardcover ed.).Tor Books. pp. 1–320.ISBN 978-1250180308.^[20]
• —— (2020).Critical Point (hardcover ed.).Tor Books. pp. 1–368.ISBN 978-1250180360.^[21]
• 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)

• The River Judge (2024)
• The Water Outlaws (2023)

• —— (2020).Burning Roses (hardcover ed.).Tor.com. pp. 1–160.ISBN 978-1250763990.

• Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell-Eligible Authors (2016) with Kurt Hunt

• "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)
• Murder by Pixel (2022)

• Official website
• Shi Lian Huang at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database

• Living people
• 21st-century American LGBTQ people
• 21st-century American writers
• American non-binary writers
• American science fiction writers
• Hugo Award–winning writers
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
• Writers from New Jersey
• Non-binary science fiction writers

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Year of birth missing (living people)