Kate Orman

Kate Orman

Kate Orman (born 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian author, best-known for her books connected to the British science-fiction television series "Doctor Who".

Biography

Orman was born in Sydney, but grew up in Canberra and Melbourne and spent two years living in the United States. She earned a degree in microbiology at Sydney University before becoming a professional author. She is a self-described "liberal feminist". She is married to American writer Jonathan Blum, whom she met through "Doctor Who" fandom.

Writing

Orman penned many spin-off novels from "Doctor Who" for Virgin Publishing, BBC Books and Telos Publishing. Several of her later "Doctor Who" works were in collaboration with her husband. She has also collaborated with Paul Cornell: Orman and Cornell co-plotted "Human Nature", written by Cornell, and "Return of the Living Dad", written by Orman. More recent "Doctor Who" and related work has been for Big Finish.

Orman has also had a number of short science fiction stories published.

In 2004, Orman and Blum's "Doctor Who" novella "Fallen Gods", published by Telos the previous year, won the Aurealis Award for best Australian science-fiction book.

Novels

Virgin New Adventures

* "The Left-Handed Hummingbird" (1993)
* "Set Piece" (1995)
* "SLEEPY" (1996)
* "Return of the Living Dad" (1996)
* "The Room With No Doors" (1997)
* "So Vile a Sin" (with Ben Aaronovitch, 1997)


="Benny" New Adventures=

*"Walking to Babylon" (1998, later adapted into an audio drama by Big Finish)

Eighth Doctor Adventures

* "Vampire Science" (with Jonathan Blum, 1997)
* "Seeing I" (with Jonathan Blum, 1998)
* "Unnatural History" (with Jonathan Blum, 1999)
* "The Year of Intelligent Tigers" (2001)

Past Doctor Adventures

* "Blue Box" (2003)

Telos Doctor Who novellas

* "Fallen Gods" (with Jonathan Blum, 2003)

Novellas

* "All Mimsy Were the Borogoves" in "Nobody's Children"

hort Stories

* "No-One Goes to Halfway There" (in "Decalog 4", 1997)
* "The Bicycle Net" (in "Interzone", September 1997)
* "The Adventures of Kate Orman, Novelist" (in "Pretext: Salvage", 1999)
* "Steal from the World" in "The Dead Men Diaries", 2000)
* "Cactus Land" (in "Realms of Fantasy", August 2000)
* "Pyramid Scheme" (in "Outside the Box: the Best Short Fiction from Bookface.com", 2001)
* "And All the Children of Chimaera" (in "Passing Strange", 2002)
* "Ticket to Backwards" (in "Agog! Fantastic Fiction", 2002)
* "Solar Max and the Seven-Handed Snake Mother" (in "", 2002)
* "In the Days of the Red Animals" (in "Agog! Terrific Tales", 2003)
* "The Peter Principle" (in "", 2003)
* "No Exit" (in "", 2003)
* "The Southwell Park Mermaid" (in "", 2004)
* "Buried Alive" (in "", 2004)
* "Culture War" (in "", 2004)
* "Nobody's Gift" (in "", 2005)

Comics

* "Change of Mind" (in "Doctor Who Magazine" #221-223, 1995)


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