Connect with her on Facebook and Twitter. She can take any job for the right price and shoot anyone who gets in her way. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed men twice her size and dodge every bullet in a gunfight. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, and The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016. Huang 3.87 651 ratings140 reviews Cas Russell is good at math. Huang has a math degree from MIT and is a weapons expert and has worked as a professional stuntwoman on Battlestar Galactica and a number of other productions. With Cas, Huang has created an indelible, flawed character who makes mathematics seem almost magical-Library Journal, STARRED reviewĬas is an awesome antiheroine, sympathetic despite her practical approach to violence, and her abilities make this book exciting, nasty fun…an excellent harbinger for books to come-Kirkus Reviews Who wrote it? This hard-to-put-down, action-packed SF debut is intelligent and entertaining. Huang’s series starter will have readers anxiously awaiting the next…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 There’s only one problem: she doesn’t know which of her thoughts are her own anymore. Someone intent on becoming the world’s puppet master.Ĭas should run, like she usually does, but for once she’s involved. Someone who can reach directly into people’s minds and twist their brains into Moebius strips. Then, she discovers someone with a power even more dangerous than her own. If you liked Trinity from The Matrix but could do without the blind devotion, meet Cas Russell.Īs far as Cas knows, she’s the only person around with a superpower, and she’ll take any job for the right price. This near-future science fiction thriller features a mercenary whose genius level math prowess gives her superhuman abilities: taking down men twice her size and dodging not just fists, but bullets, too.

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