Kate Orman

Kate Orman
Born	1968 (age 56–57) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Spouse	Jonathan Blum

Kate Orman (born 1968) is an Australian author, ^[1] best known for her books connected to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who . ^[2]

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. ^[3] 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. ^[4]

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. ^[3]

Novels

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)

"Benny" New Adventures

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

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)

Past Doctor Adventures

• Blue Box (2003)

Telos Doctor Who novellas

• Fallen Gods (with Jonathan Blum, 2003)

Big Finish Doctor Who Audionovels

• The Dead Star (2023)

Novellas

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

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

• "Change of Mind" (in Doctor Who Magazine #221-223, 1995)

Editor

• Liberating Earth (Obverse Books, 2015)

References

1. "Austlit — Kate Orman". Austlit. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
2. "PAPeR cuts". Tharunka . Vol. 44, no. 7. New South Wales, Australia. 2 June 1998. p. 41. Retrieved 29 May 2024– via National Library of Australia.
3. "The spin-off doctors". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 January 2005.
4. McKee, Alan (2005). "Interview with Kate Orman: Dr Who author". Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. 19 (1): 127–139. doi:10.1080/1030431052000336342. ISSN   1030-4312.

External links

• Kate Orman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database