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Cas Russell Series

Dive into a thrilling near-future world where mathematical genius and extraordinary abilities collide with overwhelming odds. Follow a mercenary with superhuman reflexes and strength, capable of taking on any challenge for the right price. This series explores the limits of human potential and morality in a fast-paced, action-packed science fiction landscape.

Null Set
Zero Sum Game

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  1. 1

    Zero Sum Game

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    3.6(1989)Add rating

    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 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.

    Zero Sum Game
  2. 2

    Null Set

    • 368 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    3.6(12)Add rating

    Null Set Best of Lists: *Monthly pick from BookRiot, Kirkus Reviews, SyFy Wire, The Verge, and The Mary Sue S. L. Huang's Null Set is the breakout sf thriller for fans of John Scalzi and Greg Rucka Math-genius mercenary Cas Russell has decided to Fight Crime(tm). After all, with her extraordinary mathematical ability, she can neuter bombs or out-shoot an army. And the recent outbreak of violence in the world’s cities is Cas’s fault—she’s the one who crushed the organization of telepaths keeping the world’s worst offenders under control. But Cas’s own power also has a history, one she can’t remember—or control. One that's creeping into her mind and fracturing her sanity...just when she’s gotten herself on the hit list of every crime lord on the West Coast. And her best, only, sociopathic friend. Cas won’t be able to save the world. She might not even be able to save herself.

    Null Set