Kate Orman

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Kate Orman (born 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian author of books connected to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. She has penned many spin-off novels from the series, for Virgin Publishing, BBC Books and Telos Publishing. Several of these have been in collaboration with her husband, American writer Jonathan Blum, whom she met through Doctor Who fandom. She 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 prestigious Aurealis Award for best Australian science-fiction book.

Kate was born in Sydney, but grew up in Canberra and Melbourne and spent two years living in the United States. She gained a degree in microbiology at Sydney University before becoming a professional author. She is a self-described "liberal feminist".

1 Novels
2 Short Stories
3 Comics

[edit] Novels

[edit] 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)

[edit] "Benny" New Adventures

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Past Doctor Adventures

Blue Box (2003)

[edit] Telos Doctor Who novellas

Fallen Gods (with Jonathan Blum, 2003)

[edit] 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 Doctor Who - Short Trips: Steel Skies, 2003)
"The Southwell Park Mermaid" (in Doctor Who - Short Trips: Life Science, 2004)
"Buried Alive" (in Bernice Summerfield: A Life Worth Living, 2004)
"Culture War" (in Doctor Who - Short Trips: 2040, 2004)
"Nobody's Gift" (in Doctor Who - Short Trips: The History of Christmas, 2005)