Kate Orman


Kate Orman 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 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. 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
  • Set Piece
  • SLEEPY
  • Return of the Living Dad
  • The Room with No Doors
  • ''So Vile a Sin''

    "Benny" New Adventures">Bernice Summerfield">"Benny" New Adventures

  • ''Walking to Babylon''

    [Eighth Doctor Adventures]

  • Vampire Science
  • Seeing I
  • Unnatural History
  • ''The Year of Intelligent Tigers''

    [Past Doctor Adventures]

  • ''Blue Box''

    [Telos Doctor Who novellas]

  • ''Fallen Gods''

    Big Finish Doctor Who Audionovels

  • ''The Dead Star''

    Novellas

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

    Short stories

  • "No-One Goes to Halfway There"
  • "The Bicycle Net"
  • "The Adventures of Kate Orman, Novelist"
  • "Steal from the World" in The Dead Men Diaries, 2000)
  • "Cactus Land"
  • "Pyramid Scheme"
  • "And All the Children of Chimaera"
  • "Ticket to Backwards"
  • "Solar Max and the Seven-Handed Snake Mother"
  • "In the Days of the Red Animals"
  • "The Peter Principle"
  • "No Exit"
  • "The Southwell Park Mermaid"
  • "Buried Alive"
  • "Culture War"
  • "Nobody's Gift"
  • "White on White"
  • "Black Sky Mining"
  • "Don't Do Something, Just Sit There"
  • "The Five-Dimensional Man"
  • "Crocodile City"
  • "Playing for Time"
  • ""

    Comics

  • "Change of Mind"

    Editor

  • ''Liberating Earth''