Anil Menon worked for about nine years in software R&D worrying about things like secure distributed databases and evolutionary computation. Then he shifted to a different kind of fiction. His stories may be found in magazines such as Albedo One, Chiaroscuro, InterNova, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Strange Horizons and anthologies such as TEL: Stories and From The Trenches. His story "Standard Deviation" was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (2005). He was nominated for the 2006 Carl Brandon Society Parallax Prize and the 2007 Million Writers Award. His YA novel The Beast With Nine Billion Feet (Zubaan) is scheduled to appear in Fall 2009.