Zero Sum Game Spiral-Bound | 2020-08-25

S. L. Huang

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A smart, accessible SF thriller with blockbuster potential from a breakout author, featuring a math-genius mercenary, for fans of Lee Child and John Scalzi.

ZERO SUM GAME Best of Lists:
* Best Books of the Month at The Verge, Book Riot, Unbound Worlds, SYFY, & Kirkus
* The Mary Sue Book Club Pick
* Library Journal Best Debuts of Fall and Winter

Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight. She can take any job for the right price and shoot anyone who gets in her way.

As far as she knows, she's the only person around with a superpower...but then Cas discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own. Someone who can reach directly into people's minds and twist their brains into Moebius strips. Someone intent on becoming the world's puppet master.

Cas should run, like she usually does, but for once she's involved. There's only one problem: She doesn't know which of her thoughts are her own anymore.

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Mass Market
Pages: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 1250749891
Item Weight: 0.4 lbs
Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.0 x 6.8 inches
"Fresh and exciting....A great start to an exciting series--and an exciting career." --Boing Boing

"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

"The best novel I've read this year; a heroine I fell in love with." --Eric Van Lustbader

"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

"This book lines up like a perfect, elegant equation--it's fast, furious, and adds up to one of the coolest, most crackin' reads this year." --Chuck Wendig

"The smartest and thrillingest book you'll read all year." --Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings and The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

"Paced at a flat out sprint, Zero Sum Game deploys an astonishing array of weapons together with the prickly charms of its math genius protagonist on her turbulent journey toward trust and connection." --Kate Elliott

"Intense, vivid, and insanely clever, with a great heroine--I couldn't put it down. If only more authors with math degrees used them like this!" --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

S. L. Huang has a math degree from MIT and is a weapons expert and professional stuntwoman who has worked in Hollywood on Battlestar Galactica and a number of other productions. Her novels include the Cas Russell series (formerly known as Russel's Attic), which begins with Zero Sum Game. Huang's short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, and The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016. She is the author of Zero Sum Game, Null Set, and Critical Point.