Robert Bagnall is an English writer whose speculative fiction has appeared in a variety of magazines, websites and anthologies since the early 1990s. His words also very occasionally cropped up on radio, in newspapers, and out of the mouths of UK government ministers, for whom he briefly wrote speeches. He is currently taking a break from the corporate wageslavery that keeps the wolf from the door to renovate a Victorian villa on the English Riviera, which Rudyard Kipling allegedly once visited. You can find his science fiction musings at meschera.blogspot.co.uk and his non-fiction book on self-building his own home ‘127a’ on Amazon. He doesn't like dogs and is allergic to cats.