Anil Menon is a leading India

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n writer of speculative fiction

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Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as...

. His short stories and reviews have appeared in Strange Horizons

Strange Horizons

Strange Horizons is an online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry in every issue....

, Interzone

Interzone (magazine)

Interzone is an award-winning British fantasy and science fiction magazine. Published since 1982, Interzone is the eighth longest-running science fiction magazine in history and the longest-running British SF magazine...

, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is a twice-yearly small press zine published by Small Beer Press, edited by Gavin Grant and Kelly Link. It contains an eclectic mix of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, with an emphasis on speculative fiction, fantasy or slipstream. Link, Karen Joy Fowler, and...

, Chiaroscuro

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, Sybil's Garage

Sybil's Garage

Sybil's Garage is a speculative fiction, poetry, and art journal, published by Senses Five Press. Issues one through six were released as a small press magazine, or zine. Issue seven was released in trade paperback format. The publication combines artwork with fiction and poetry for a unique...

, Apex Digest

Apex Digest

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 and other magazines. In 2009, Zubaan Books

Zubaan

Zubaan Books is an imprint of Kali for Women, India's first feminist publishing house.-History:In 1984, Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon founded Kali for Women, India's first feminist publishing house. Their objectives were to publish quality work, keep overheads low, and ensure that not only the...

, India's leading feminist press, published his debut young adult novel The Beast With Nine Billion Feet. It was shortlisted for the 2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award

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. In 2009, in conjunction with Vandana Singh

Vandana Singh

Vandana Singh is an Indian science fiction writer. She currently works at Framingham State College in Massachusetts.-Short Fiction:* The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet and other stories includes two previously unpublished stories: "Conservation Laws" and "Infinities" * "The Room on the Roof"...

 and Dr. Suchitra Mathur, he helped organize India's first in-residence, three-week speculative fiction workshop at IIT-Kanpur.

Short Fiction

• Love In A Hot Climate in Tel: Stories (ed. Jay Lake), Wheatland Press, 2005. ISBN 0-9755903-3-2.
• Archipelago in Strange Horizons
  Strange Horizons
  Strange Horizons is an online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry in every issue....
  
   Magazine, April 2005. Shortlisted: 2006 Carl Brandon Parallax Award.
• Eustace Albert in Time For Bedlam (ed. Roger Arbuckle), Saltboy Publishers, 2005. ISBN 1-4116-5438-2.
• http://anilmenon.com/samples.html Standard Deviation in Chiaroscuro Magazine, March 2005. Reprinted Kalkion Magazine, July 2010. Honorable Mention: Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (ed. Ellen Datlow), 2006.
• Dialetheia in New Genre Magazine, Issue No. 5, Spring 2007.
• Invisible Hand in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Magazine, No. 20, June 2007.
• A Sky Full Of Constants in Albedo One
  Albedo one
  Albedo One is an Irish horror, fantasy and science fiction magazine founded in 1993 and currently published by Albedo One Productions.-Overview:...
  
  , Issue 33, 2007.
• Vermillion in [www.nova-sf.de/wp/index.php Internova Magazine], Issue 10, January 2007.
• Harris On The Pig: Practical Hints For The Pig-Farmer in From The Trenches (ed. J. P. Haines & S. Henderson), Carnifax Press, 2006. ISBN 10-0-9789583-2-2. Reprinted in Apex Magazine, December 2008.
• Into The Night in Interzone
  Interzone (magazine)
  Interzone is an award-winning British fantasy and science fiction magazine. Published since 1982, Interzone is the eighth longest-running science fiction magazine in history and the longest-running British SF magazine...
  
   Magazine, January 2008. Reprinted in The Apex Book Of World SF (ed. Lavie Tidhar
  Lavie Tidhar
  Lavie Tidhar is an Israeli born writer. He lived in the United Kingdom and South Africa for long periods of time. He had also lived in Vanuatu and Laos.-Early life:Tidhar grew up in the communal atmosphere of an Israeli Kibbutz...
  
  ), 2008. Reprinted Apex Digest, November 2008. Reprinted Galaxies, January 2010.
• The Scorching Glass in [Return of the Raven] (ed. Maria Grazia Cavicchiolli), 2009.
• The Poincaré Sutra in Sybil's Garage
  Sybil's Garage
  Sybil's Garage is a speculative fiction, poetry, and art journal, published by Senses Five Press. Issues one through six were released as a small press magazine, or zine. Issue seven was released in trade paperback format. The publication combines artwork with fiction and poetry for a unique...
  
  , Issue 7, 2011. Nominated for the 2010 Carl Brandon Society's Parallax Award and the Kindred Award.
• The Uncertain Hour in The Tangled Bank: Love, Wonder, and Evolution (ed. Chris Lynch), February 2011.

Children's Fiction

• Ice in Shockwave & Other Cyber Stories (ed. Vatsala Kaul), Penguin Books, India, 2007. ISBN 0-14-333054-3.
• Before and After in Dignity Dialogue, August 2010.
• Shrieknath in Whispers in the Classroom, Voices on the Field (ed. Richa Jha), July 2011. To be reprinted: Muse India, 2011
• A Different Ballgame in Sports Stories (ed. Himanjali Sankar), Scholastic India, 2011.
• No More, Hoot Magazine, July 2011.

Novels

• The Beast with Nine Billion Feet, Zubaan Publishers (India), 2009, ISBN 9788189884390. Shortlisted for the 2010 Vodafone-Crossword Award.

Anthologies

• Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana (eds. Anil Menon & Vandana Singh), Zubaan Books, Dec. 2011.

Articles

Hunting a Snark: On the Trail of Regional Indian SF. Translated by: Juan Madrigal, Literatura Prospectiva
May 05, 2010.

World Building in a Hot Climate, World SF Blog Editorial, May 19, 2010.

The Raw and the Cooked, World SF Blog Editorial, November 25, 2009.

Interviews

• SF-Signal Interview Nov. 02, 2009.
• Hindustan Times, Interview by Sumeet Kaul, Dec. 06, 2009.
• The Hindu, Kochi Metroplus, Interview by Prema Manmadhan, Jan. 15, 2010.
• Kalkion Online Interview by Swapnil Bhartiya, Feb 15, 2010.
• Sanskrit Literature Blog, Interview by Venetia Ansell, March 04, 2010.
• OPEN Magazine: Changing Epic Traditions, Interview by Sudha G. Tilak, Aug 2, 2010.
• NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation), Interview by Ana Leticia Sigvartsen, June 16, 2011.

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