Zero Sum Game, S. L. Huang
Zero Sum Game, S. L. Huang
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Zero Sum Game

Author: S. L. Huang

Narrator: Lauren Fortgang

Unabridged: 11 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2018

Synopsis

A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game introduces a math-genius mercenary who finds herself being manipulated by someone possessing unimaginable power…

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, and she'll take any job for the right price.

As far as Cas knows, she’s the only person around with a superpower...until she 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.

About S. L. Huang

S. L. Huang is a Hollywood stunt performer, firearms expert, Nebula Award finalist, and Hugo Award winner with a math degree from MIT and credits in productions like “Battlestar Galactica” and “Top Shot.” The author of the fantasy novella Burning Roses as well as the Cas Russell novels including Zero Sum Game, Null Set, and Critical Point, Huang’s short fiction has also appeared in Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Nature, Tor.com, and more, including numerous best-of anthologies.

Reviews

Goodreads review by R.F.

My review at Journey to the BEST! Link here for a Q&A with the author: [URL not allowed] S.L. Huang’s ZERO SUM GAME might have the most alluring pitch I’ve ever read: Cas Russell, mathematical genius, fights crime and kicks ass with lightning-quick calculations that supplement......more

Goodreads review by Trike

This book has one of the best opening scenes I've ever read. It's awesome! So why the 2 stars? Because that's the high point, sadly. This suffers from typical First Book Problems, like inconsistent narrative, uneven characters, repetitive and frequently obtuse dialogue, and, worst of all, a weak endin......more

Goodreads review by Allison

I really liked this. It was a smart urban fantasy with a mask of science fiction. It's gritty, it's mathy, it's confronting social decline and disease in a telling way, and honestly, I think that's UF at its finest. The star is removed because the central conceit was a bit thin, for me, compared to t......more

Quotes

"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, New York Times bestselling author of Invasive and Star Wars: Aftermath

“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

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