SL Huang

Speculative fiction author. Mathematician. Gunslinger.

Text Bibliography

This is an all-text list-form bibliography, organized by series.

Anything available from retailers is displayed in the library, and I’ve also listed all my free online short fiction. But there’s some overlap between those categories, and it can be confusing to browse, so here’s everything at once, including reprints.

This page is current to December 2024.

FICTION

The Cas Russell Series

  • Novels, self-published (no longer available)
    • Book 1: Zero Sum Game (March 2014) (re-release with Tor Books: October 2018)
    • Book 2: Half Life (December 2014) (re-release with Tor Books: TBA)
    • Book 3: Root of Unity (September 2015) (re-release with Tor Books: TBA)
    • Book 4: Plastic Smile (June 2016) (re-release with Tor Books: re-written as Null Set, July 2019)

The Water Outlaws

Novel

  • The Water Outlaws (2023) [Tor]
    • Finalist for the Nebula Award
    • Finalist for the Ignyte Award
    • Finalist for the Locus Award
    • Finalist for the Dragon Award
    • Carnegie Medal Longlist Honoree
    • Finalist for the Golden Crown Literary Awards
    • Longlisted for the BSFA Award

Prequel Novelette

The Vela Serial

  • The Vela is a work of serialized fiction from Serial Box Publishing, with season 1 written by myself, Yoon Ha Lee, Rivers Solomon, and Becky Chambers. The individual episodes I wrote are:
    • Season 1, Episode 1: “A Leisurely Extinction” (March 2019)
    • Season 1, Episode 4: “Camp Ghala” (March 2019)
    • Season 1, Episode 8: “Gravity” (April 2019)

The Hunting Monsters Series

  • Short Stories
    • “Hunting Monsters” (6600 words, October 2014) [Book Smugglers Publishing]
    • “Fighting Demons” (7100 words, September 2015) [Book Smugglers Publishing]
  • Novella

Standalone Short Fiction

  • Short Stories
    • “By Degrees and Dilatory Time” (4300 words, May 2015) [Strange Horizons]
    • “My Grandmother’s Bones” (900 words, August 2016) [Daily Science Fiction]
      • Reprinted: Fantastic Stories of the Imagination (December 2016)
    • “The Documentarian” (2,000 words, December 2016) [Time Travel Tales anthology]
    • “The Last Robot” (800 words, January 2017) [Nature: Futures]
      • Reprinted: Science Fiction World (Chinese translation)
    • “Split Shadow” (4,900 words, May 2017) [Haunted Futures anthology]
    • “Time Travel is Only for the Poor” (6600 words, December 2017) [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
      • Reprinted: The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018
      • Reprinted: Science Fiction World (Chinese translation)
      • Finalist for the AnLab Award
    • “Devouring Tongues” (5400 words, September 2018) [Shades Within Us anthology]
    • “Dulce et Decorum” (3800 words, September 2018) [Sword & Sonnet anthology]
    • “As the Last I May Know” (5500 words, October 2019) [Tor.com]
      • Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
      • Reprinted: Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2019 Edition
      • Reprinted: The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2020
      • Reprinted: Crononauta (Spanish translation)
      • Reprinted: Robot (Italian translation)
      • Reprinted: Bli Panika (Hebrew translation)
      • Reprinted: Science Fiction World (Chinese translation)
    • “The Million Mile Sniper” (1700 words, March/April 2020) [The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]
    • “Add Oil” (3900 words, March 2020) [Avatars Inc.]
    • “The Invisible Bisexual” (3400 words, September 2021) [It Gets Even Better: Stories of Queer Possibility]
      • Reprinted: Crononauta (Spanish translation)
    • “The Ship Cat of the Suzaku Maru” (4700 words, July 2022) [Bridge to Elsewhere anthology]
      • Reprinted: The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Eight [upcoming]
      • Reprinted: Spanish translation [upcoming]