Ben Aaronovitch

Ben Aaronovitch
Born	1964 (age 46–47) London, England
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	English

Ben Denis Aaronovitch (born 1964) is a London-born British writer who has worked on television series including Doctor Who, Casualty, Jupiter Moon and Dark Knight. He is the son of the late economist and Communist^[1] Sam Aaronovitch, younger brother of actor Owen Aaronovitch and British journalist David Aaronovitch.^[2]

As well as writing the Doctor Who serials Remembrance of the Daleks and Battlefield,^[3] he has also written three spin-off novels in the Virgin Publishing New Adventures range, a new Bernice Summerfield novel and several short stories for Big Finish Productions.^[4] He created the ongoing Doctor Who character Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart, who has never appeared in the television series, but has appeared in various spin-offs.

He is currently working on a series of urban fantasy police procedurals the first of which, "Rivers of London", has achieved considerable success.^[5]

Television

• Doctor Who
  • Remembrance of the Daleks (1988)
  • Battlefield (1989)
• Casualty
  • "Results" (1990)
• Jupiter Moon
  • Episode 69 (1990)
  • Episode 70 (1990)
  • Episode 80 (1990)
  • Episode 81 (1990)
  • Episode 95 (1990)
  • Episode 119 (1996)
  • Episode 120 (1996)
  • Episode 131 (1996)
  • Episode 132 (1996)
  • Episode 148 (1996)
• Dark Knight^[6]
  • "Stonegod" (2001)

Novels

Doctor Who novelisations

• Remembrance of the Daleks

Virgin New Adventures

• Transit
• The Also People
• So Vile a Sin (with Kate Orman)

Other novels

• Genius Loci

Rivers of London

• Rivers of London/Midnight Riot (US title) (2011)^[7]
• Moon Over Soho (2011)
• Whispers Under Ground (2012)

Short stories

• Gone Fishing in Short Trips: Time Signature
• Walking Backwards for Christmas in Something Changed
• The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam in Missing Adventures

Discography

• Rebel (2007)
• When Vila Met Gan (2008)
• Eye of the Machine (2008)
• Blood and Earth (2009)

References

1. ^ Barker, Martin (1992). Haunt of Fears: Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign, University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-0878055944
2. ^ Name * (2011-03-06). "times". The Folly. http://www.the-folly.com/2011/03/im-in-the-times/times/. Retrieved 2011-10-31. 
3. ^ Ben Aaronovitch at the Internet Movie Database
4. ^ Ben Aaronovitch at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
5. ^ "E-book sales at Hachette UK now 5% and catching US". Thebookseller.com. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/e-book-sales-hachette-uk-now-5-and-catching-us.html. Retrieved 2011-08-03. 
6. ^ "Dark Knight" (2000)
7. ^ "Del Rey Buys Ben Aaronovitch’s RIVERS OF LONDON Series… | Zeno Literary Agency Ltd". Zenoagency.com. 2010-03-01. http://zenoagency.com/news/del-rey-buys-ben-aaronovitchs-rivers-of-london/. Retrieved 2010-09-08. 

External links

• Ben Aaronovitch at the Internet Movie Database
• Ben Aaronovitch at the Internet Book List
• Ben Aaronovitch at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Official website

Persondata
Name	Aaronovitch, Ben
Alternative names
Short description	British television writer
Date of birth	1964
Place of birth	London, England
Date of death
Place of death

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