Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born 22 February 1964) is an English author and screenwriter. He is the author of the ''

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'' series of novels. He also wrote two ''

Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the ...

'' serials in the late 1980s and spin-off novels from ''Doctor Who'' and ''

Blake's 7 ''Blake's 7'' (sometimes styled ''Blakes7'') is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Four 13-episode series were broadcast on BBC1 between 1978 and 1981. It was created by Terry Nation, who also wrote the first ...

''.

Biography

Family

Born in Camden, Aaronovitch is the son of the

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Sam Aaronovitch who was a senior member of the

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, and the younger brother of actor

Owen Aaronovitch Owen Aaronovitch (born 1956) is a British actor, known for portraying Jon Lindsay in '' Coronation Street''. Background Aaronovitch was born in Parliament Hill, London.

and journalist David Aaronovitch. He attended

Holloway School Beacon High is a coeducational secondary school for 11-16-year-olds in the Tufnell Park area, located in the London Borough of Islington, England. Beacon High is a member of the Islington Futures Federation of Community Schools and the Islington ...

.The Old Camdenians Club
Retrieved 31 January 2015 Aaronovitch lives in Wimbledon.

''Doctor Who'' and television work

Aaronovitch wrote two ''

'' serials, '' Remembrance of the Daleks'' (1988) and '' Battlefield'' (1989), for BBC television, and also the novelization of the former. He wrote one episode for '' Casualty'' (1990) and was then a regular writer on science fiction series '' Jupiter Moon''. He subsequently wrote or co-wrote three ''Doctor Who'' spin-off novels in the Virgin Publishing ''New Adventures'' range; he created the character Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart who became a semi-regular in the ''New Adventures''. He has also written a novel and several short stories published by

Big Finish Productions Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to compact disc and for download in MP3 and m4b format) based, primarily, on cult science fiction properties. These include '' Doctor Who'', th ...

featuring the character of

Bernice Summerfield Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) is a fictional character created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishing's range of original full-length ''Doctor Wh ...

, who was originally developed in the ''New Adventures''. He also co-wrote a ''Doctor Who'' audio drama for Big Finish, and has written a number of ''

'' spin-off audio dramas.

Proposed serials of “''Doctor Who''”

Knight Fall In May 1987, Aaronovitch submitted “Knight Fall” to the ''Doctor Who'' production office for Season 25. The story concerned privatization.''A brief history of “Doctor Who” stories-The Lost Stories-Patrick Sullivan, Shannon'' Script editor Andrew Cartmel liked the story ideas, but felt that the script was inappropriate for the series and had too many supporting characters. Transit After failing to feature Aaronovitch's “''Knight Fall''” storyline to production, Aaronovitch submitted a story in June 1987, entitled ''

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''. The story would see the Doctor and Ace in the future, land in a metro station, and discover transportation portals that could lead any body throughout the Solar System, but one of the portals leads a gate way to hell. Even though it is unexplainable to how Aaronovitch's scripts of “''Transit''” never came to fruition, he would adapt the story as a book for ''

Virgin New Adventures The ''Virgin New Adventures'' (NA series, or NAs) are a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. They continued the story of the Doctor from the point at which the televisio ...

'' series in December 1992. Bad Destination During Summer of 1988, Aaronovitch submitted a three-part adventure story for ''Doctor Who’s'' 27th Season (which never came to fruition), and was called ”Bad Destination”. The story would feature The Doctor seeing Ace as a captain of a hospital spaceship which is being under attack by the Metatraxi.''“Doctor Who: Endgame”- DVD documentary of “Doctor Who: Survival”- retrieved August 2007'' The story, however, was abandoned when, in September 1989, the BBC cancelled ''Doctor Who'' after its 26 Season, due to declining audiences. In July 2011,

released the story as

Earth Aid ''Doctor Who: The Lost Stories'' is a sci-fi audio series produced by Big Finish Productions of ''Doctor Who'' audio plays adapted from unused TV stories. Episodes Series 1 (2009–10) The first series is largely adapted from stories planned for ...

, by Aaronovitch and Cartmel.

Television

''Doctor Who''

* '' Remembrance of the Daleks'' (1988) * '' Battlefield'' (1989)

''Casualty''

* "Results" (1990)

''Jupiter Moon''

* Episode 69 (1990) * Episode 70 (1990) * Episode 80 (1990) * Episode 81 (1990) * Episode 95 (1990) * Episode 119 (1996) * Episode 120 (1996) * Episode 131 (1996) * Episode 132 (1996) * Episode 148 (1996)

''Dark Knight''

* "Stonegod" (2001)

Audio dramas

''Blake's 7''

* ''Rebel'' (2007) * ''When Vila Met Gan'' (2008) * ''Eye of the Machine'' (2008) * ''Blood and Earth'' (2009)

''Doctor Who''

* ''Earth Aid'' (with Andrew Cartmel; 2011)

Novels

''Doctor Who''

Novelisations

* '' Remembrance of the Daleks''

''
Virgin New Adventures The ''Virgin New Adventures'' (NA series, or NAs) are a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. They continued the story of the Doctor from the point at which the televisio ...
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* ''

'' * ''

The Also People ''The Also People'' is an original novel written by Ben Aaronovitch and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Seventh Doctor, Bernice, Chris, Roz and Kadiatu. Plot The Prologue rel ...

'' * '' So Vile a Sin'' (with Kate Orman)

''Rivers of London''

* ''

'' (published as ''Midnight Riot'' in the US) (2011) * '' Moon Over Soho'' (2011) * '' Whispers Under Ground'' (2012) * '' Broken Homes'' (2013) * '' Foxglove Summer'' (2014) * '' The Hanging Tree'' (3 November 2016) * '' The Furthest Station'' (28 September 2017) —novella, set between ''Foxglove Summer'' and ''The Hanging Tree'' * '' Lies Sleeping'' (6 November 2018) * '' The October Man (novella)'' (31 May 2019) – novella, set after ''Lies Sleeping'' in Germany, with Tobias Winter as the main character * ''False Value'' (20 February 2020) (Hardback); (Export Trade Paperback); (eBook) *''What Abigail Did That Summer (18 March 2021) – novella'' (Hardback); (eBook) * ''Amongst our Weapons'' (7 April 2022) (Hardback)

Others

* ''

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Comics

''Rivers of London – Body Work''

*''Body Work #1 – 16 July 2015'' *''Body Work #2 – 19 August 2015'' *''Body Work #3 – 16 September 2015'' *''Body Work #4 – 21 October 2015'' *''Body Work #5 – 20 November 2015'' *''Body Work (collection/graphic novel) – 29 March 2016''

''Rivers of London – Night Witch''

*''Night Witch #1 – 16 March 2016'' *''Night Witch #2 – 13 April 2016'' *''Night Witch #3 – 18 May 2016'' *''Night Witch (collection/graphic novel) – 1 November 2016''

''Rivers of London – Black Mould''

*''Black Mould #1 – 12 October 2016'' *''Black Mould #2 – 16 November 2016'' *''Black Mould #3 – 21 December 2016'' *''Black Mould #4 – 1 February 2017'' *''Black Mould #5 – 8 March 2017'' *''Black Mould (collection/graphic novel) – 25 July 2017''

''Rivers of London – Detective Stories''

*''Detective Stories #1 – 7 June 2017'' *''Detective Stories #2 – 12 July 2017'' *''Detective Stories #3 – 9 August 2017'' *''Detective Stories #4 – 13 September 2017'' *''Detective Stories (collection/graphic novel) – 29 December 2017''

''Rivers of London – Cry Fox''

*''Cry Fox #1 - 8 Nov 2017'' *''Cry Fox #2 - 13 Dec 2017'' *''Cry Fox #3 - 17 Jan 2018'' *''Cry Fox #4 - 25 Apr 2018'' *''Cry Fox (collection/graphic novel) – 26 June 2018''

''Rivers of London – Water Weed''

*''Water Weed #1 - 20 Jun 2018'' *''Water Weed #2 - 18 Jul 2018'' *''Water Weed #3 - 15 Aug 2018'' *''Water Weed #4 - 19 Sep 2018'' *''Water Weed (collection/graphic novel) – 30 November 2018''

''Rivers of London – Action at a Distance''

*''Action at a Distance #1 - 17 Oct 2018'' *''Action at a Distance #2 - 21 Nov 2018'' *''Action at a Distance #3 - 19 Dec 2018'' *''Action at a Distance #4 - 20 Jan 2019'' *''Action at a Distance (collection/graphic novel) – 1 November 2019''

''Rivers of London – The Fey & The Furious''

*''The Fey & The Furious #1 - 6 Nov 2019'' *''The Fey & The Furious #2 - 11 Dec 2019'' *''The Fey & The Furious #3 - 8 Jan 2020'' *''The Fey & The Furious #4 - 5 Feb 2020'' *''The Fey & The Furious (collection/graphic novel) – 1 November 2020''

''Rivers of London – Monday, Monday''

*''Monday, Monday #1 - 7 Jul 2021'' *''Monday, Monday #2 - 18 Aug 2021'' *''Monday, Monday #3 - 1 Sep 2021'' *''Monday, Monday #4 - 6 Oct 2021'' *''Monday, Monday (collection/graphic novel) – 5 January 2021''

Short stories

*''Gone Fishing'' in '' Short Trips: Time Signature'' *''Walking Backwards for Christmas'' in '' Something Changed'' *''The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam'' in '' Missing Adventures''

Rivers of London series

The short stories below are published in 'Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection'. *''The Home Crowd Advantage'' in the 'London Edition' of ''

'' and on Aaronovitch's blog *''The Domestic'' in the special

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edition of '' Whispers Under Ground'' *''The Cockpit'' in the special

edition of '' Broken Homes'' *''The Loneliness of the Long Distance Granny'' in the special

edition of '' Foxglove Summer'' *''A Rare Book of Cunning Device'' in a special

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-only edition read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith *''King of the Rats'' in the special

edition of '' The Hanging Tree'' *''Favourite Uncle'' in the special

edition of '' Lies Sleeping'' *''A Dedicated Follower of Fashion'' *''Vanessa Sommer's Other Christmas List'' *''Three Rivers, Two Husbands and a Baby'' *Three short pieces, labelled "Moments", published on Aaronovitch's website **''Moment One: London September 1966'' **''Moment Two: Reynolds-Florence, Az. 2014'' **''Moment Three: Tobias Winter -Meckenheim 2012''

References

External links

*
Aaronovitch's blog
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Aaronovitch, Ben 1964 births Living people English fantasy writers English male novelists English male screenwriters English people of Irish descent English people of Jewish descent English science fiction writers English television writers People educated at Holloway School Writers of Doctor Who novels British male television writers

Biography

Family

''Doctor Who'' and television work

Proposed serials of “''Doctor Who''”

Television

''Doctor Who''

''Casualty''

''Jupiter Moon''

''Dark Knight''

Audio dramas

''Blake's 7''

''Doctor Who''

Novels

''Doctor Who''

Novelisations

''Virgin New Adventures The ''Virgin New Adventures'' (NA series, or NAs) are a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. They continued the story of the Doctor from the point at which the televisio ...''

''Rivers of London''

Others

Comics

''Rivers of London – Body Work''

''Rivers of London – Night Witch''

''Rivers of London – Black Mould''

''Rivers of London – Detective Stories''

''Rivers of London – Cry Fox''

''Rivers of London – Water Weed''

''Rivers of London – Action at a Distance''

''Rivers of London – The Fey & The Furious''

''Rivers of London – Monday, Monday''

Short stories

Rivers of London series

References

External links

''
Virgin New Adventures The ''Virgin New Adventures'' (NA series, or NAs) are a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. They continued the story of the Doctor from the point at which the televisio ...
''