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Australian author (born 1968)
Kate Orman (born 1968) is an Australian author, best known for her books connected to the British
science-fiction television series
Doctor Who .
Biography
Kate 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
biology at
Sydney University before becoming a professional author. She is a self-described "
liberal feminist ".[
citation needed ]
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 , the first non-British and first female author to do so.
[1] 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.
[1]
Novels
Big Finish Doctor Who Audionovels
Novellas
Short 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
Bernice Summerfield: A Life of Surprises , 2002)
"In the Days of the Red Animals" (in Agog! Terrific Tales , 2003)
"The Peter Principle" (in
Bernice Summerfield: Life During Wartime , 2003)
"No Exit" (in
Big Finish Short Trips: Steel Skies , 2003)
"The Southwell Park Mermaid" (in
Big Finish Short Trips: Life Science , 2004)
"Buried Alive" (in
Bernice Summerfield: A Life Worth Living , 2004)
"Culture War" (in
Big Finish Short Trips: 2040 , 2004)
"Nobody's Gift" (in
Big Finish Short Trips: The History of Christmas , 2005)
"White on White" (in
Big Finish Short Trips: Christmas Around the World , 2009)
"Black Sky Mining" (in In Uniform , Slash Books, October 2010)
"Don't Do Something, Just Sit There" (in
Bernice Summerfield: Present Danger , Big Finish, September 2010)
"The Five-Dimensional Man" (
Big Finish Short Trips , audio vol. 3, Big Finish, May 2011)
"Crocodile City" (in Truth or Dare , Slash Books, July 2011)
"Playing for Time" (in Liberating Earth , Obverse Books, 2015)
"
Saltier " (short story, Interzone Digital, 2023)
Comics
Editor
References
External links
International National People