Kate Orman is an Australian science-fiction author, best known for her 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. Many of these have been in collaboration with her American husband, Jonathan Blum, who she met through Doctor Who fandom. She has also had a number of short science fiction stories published. A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Doctor Who 2005 television series logo. ... Virgin Publishing is the book publishing arm of Virgin Enterprises, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company. ... BBC Books is the book publishing division of BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... The Telos Doctor Who novellas are a series of spin-off novellas based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who officially licensed by the BBC and published by Telos Publishing. ... Keen aficionados of any phenomenon such as authors, hobbies, ideologies, genres or fashions can collectively manifest as fandom. ...

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. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. ...

Kate was born in Sydney, Australia in 1968. She 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. Sydneys skyline with the Opera House on the left Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South Wales and Australias largest and oldest city, founded in 1788. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Two of Canberras best-known landmarks, Parliament House and (foreground) Old Parliament House. ... Melbourne - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Microbiology (in Greek micron = small and biologia = studying life) is the study of microorganisms, including unicellular (single-celled) eukaryotes and prokaryotes, fungi, and viruses. ... The University of Sydney, established in 1850, is the oldest university in Australia, and it is located in Sydney, the capital city of the state of New South Wales. ...

Novels

• Doctor Who: The Left-Handed Hummingbird (1993)
• Doctor Who: Set Piece (1995)
• Doctor Who: SLEEPY (1996)
• Doctor Who: Return of the Living Dad (1996)
• Doctor Who: The Room With No Doors (1997)
• Doctor Who: So Vile a Sin (with Ben Aaronovitch, 1997)
• Walking to Babylon (a Bernice Summerfield novel, 1998)
• Doctor Who: Vampire Science (with Jonathan Blum, 1997)
• Doctor Who: Seeing I (with Jonathan Blum, 1998)
• Doctor Who: Unnatural History (with Jonathan Blum, 1999)
• Doctor Who: The Year of Intelligent Tigers (2001)
• Doctor Who: Blue Box (2003)
• Doctor Who: Fallen Gods (with Jonathan Blum, 2003)

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External link

• Kate Orman & Jonathan Blum's website (http://members.aardvark.net.au/~korman/)