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Kate Orman

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

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 biologyatSydney University before becoming a professional author. She is a self-described "liberal feminist".^{[citation needed]}

She is married to American writer Jonathan Blum, whom she met through Doctor Who fandom.

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

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.^[2]

• 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)

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

• Vampire Science (with Jonathan Blum, 1997)
• Seeing I (with Jonathan Blum, 1998)
• Unnatural History (with Jonathan Blum, 1999)
• The Year of Intelligent Tigers (2001)

• Blue Box (2003)

• Fallen Gods (with Jonathan Blum, 2003)

• The Dead Star (2023)

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

• "No-One Goes to Halfway There" (inDecalog 4, 1997)
• "The Bicycle Net" (inInterzone, September 1997)
• "The Adventures of Kate Orman, Novelist" (inPretext: Salvage, 1999)
• "Steal from the World" in The Dead Men Diaries, 2000)
• "Cactus Land" (inRealms of Fantasy, August 2000)
• "Pyramid Scheme" (inOutside the Box: the Best Short Fiction from Bookface.com, 2001)
• "And All the Children of Chimaera" (inPassing Strange, 2002)
• "Ticket to Backwards" (inAgog! Fantastic Fiction, 2002)
• "Solar Max and the Seven-Handed Snake Mother" (inBernice Summerfield: A Life of Surprises, 2002)
• "In the Days of the Red Animals" (inAgog! Terrific Tales, 2003)
• "The Peter Principle" (inBernice Summerfield: Life During Wartime, 2003)
• "No Exit" (inBig Finish Short Trips: Steel Skies, 2003)
• "The Southwell Park Mermaid" (inBig Finish Short Trips: Life Science, 2004)
• "Buried Alive" (inBernice Summerfield: A Life Worth Living, 2004)
• "Culture War" (inBig Finish Short Trips: 2040, 2004)
• "Nobody's Gift" (inBig Finish Short Trips: The History of Christmas, 2005)
• "White on White" (inBig Finish Short Trips: Christmas Around the World, 2009)
• "Black Sky Mining" (inIn Uniform, Slash Books, October 2010)
• "Don't Do Something, Just Sit There" (inBernice Summerfield: Present Danger, Big Finish, September 2010)
• "The Five-Dimensional Man" (Big Finish Short Trips, audio vol. 3, Big Finish, May 2011)
• "Crocodile City" (inTruth or Dare, Slash Books, July 2011)
• "Playing for Time" (inLiberating Earth, Obverse Books, 2015)
• "Saltier" (short story, Interzone Digital, 2023)

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

• Liberating Earth (Obverse Books, 2015)

• Kate Orman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database