Ben Aaronovitch

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Ben Aaronovitch
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Aaronovitch at a Forbidden Planet event
BornBen Dylan Aaronovitch
(1964-02-22) 22 February 1964 (age 60)
Camden, London, England
OccupationAuthor, screenwriter
Notable works Rivers of London
Remembrance of the Daleks
Spouse
Marie Fofana
(m. 1992)
[1]
Relatives Sam Aaronovitch (father)
Owen Aaronovitch (brother)
David Aaronovitch (brother)

Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born 22 February 1964) [2] is an English author and screenwriter. He is the author of the series of novels Rivers of London . He also wrote two Doctor Who serials in the late 1980s and spin-off novels from Doctor Who and Blake's 7 .

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Biography

Family

Born in Camden, [3] Aaronovitch is the son of the economist Sam Aaronovitch who was a senior member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, [4] and the younger brother of actor Owen Aaronovitch and journalist David Aaronovitch. [5] He attended Holloway School. [6]

Aaronovitch lives in Wimbledon. [7]

Doctor Who and television work

Aaronovitch wrote two Doctor Who serials, Remembrance of the Daleks (1988) and Battlefield (1989), for BBC television, and also the novelization of the former. [8]

He wrote one episode for Casualty (1990) and was then a regular writer on the science fiction series Jupiter Moon . [9]

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 featuring the character of Bernice Summerfield, 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 Blake's 7 spin-off audio dramas.[ citation needed ]

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. [10] Script editor Andrew Cartmel liked the story ideas, but felt that the script was inappropriate for the series and had too many supporting characters. [10]

Transit

After failing to feature Aaronovitch's “Knight Fall” storyline to production, Aaronovitch submitted a story in June 1987, entitled Transit . 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. [10] 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 series in December 1992. [10]

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. [11] The story, however, was abandoned when, in September 1989, the BBC cancelled Doctor Who after its 26 Season, due to declining audiences. [10] [11] In July 2011, Big Finish Productions released the story as Earth Aid, by Aaronovitch and Cartmel. [10]

Television

Doctor Who

Casualty

Jupiter Moon

Dark Knight

Audio dramas

Blake's 7

Doctor Who

Novels

Doctor Who

Novelisations

Virgin New Adventures

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

Rivers of London – Deadly Ever After

Rivers of London – Here Be Dragons

Short stories

Rivers of London series

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

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References

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