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Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born 22 February 1964) 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.




Biography


Born in Camden, Aaronovitch is the son of the economist Sam Aaronovitch who was a senior member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and the younger brother of actor Owen Aaronovitch and journalist David Aaronovitch. He attended Holloway School.
Aaronovitch left school with no particular plan. “Instead of going to university I basically faffed about. I had a series of terrible jobs, the kind you get when you have no qualifications.” These included working as a security guard for Securitas, which he says taught him “to understand shoplifting a lot better... So it did come in quite handy later, for work”. During one of the short-term jobs he submitted some scripts to the BBC, which led to him writing Doctor Who stories, and finally, while working at Waterstones, Aaronovitch published his first Rivers of London novel, which rapidly became a word-of-mouth success, enabling him to write full-time. He is passionate about diversity in literature, and in 2020 he founded the Future Worlds Prize, then known as the Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME SFF Award, aimed at opening up science fiction and fantasy publishing to more diverse writers.
In 2023 it was announced that Rivers of London would be adapted for TV as a co-production between Pure Fiction Television, See-Saw Films and Aaronovitch’s own production company, Unnecessary Logo.
Aaronovitch lives in Wimbledon, London.




= Doctor Who and television work

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Aaronovitch wrote two Doctor Who serials, Remembrance of the Daleks (1988) and Battlefield (1989), for BBC television, and also the novelization of the former.
He wrote one episode for Casualty (1990) and was then a regular writer on the science fiction series Jupiter Moon.
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.



Proposed serials

In May 1987, Aaronovitch submitted Knight Fall to the Doctor Who production office for Season 25. The story concerned privatization. Script editor Andrew Cartmel liked the story ideas, but felt that the script was inappropriate for the series and had too many supporting characters.
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. Even though 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.
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. The story, however, was abandoned when, in September 1989, the BBC cancelled Doctor Who after its 26 Season, due to declining audiences. In July 2011, Big Finish Productions released the story as Earth Aid, by Aaronovitch and Cartmel.




Works






= Television

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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

Stonegod (2001)




= Audio dramas

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Blake's 7

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



Doctor Who

Earth Aid (with Andrew Cartmel; 2011)




= Novels

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Doctor Who

Novelizations:

Remembrance of the Daleks
Virgin New Adventures:

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



Rivers of London


Rivers of London (published as Midnight Riot in the US) (2011) ISBN 9781782761877
Moon Over Soho (2011) ISBN 9780345524591
Whispers Under Ground (2012) ISBN 9780345524614
Broken Homes (2013) ISBN 9780575132467
Foxglove Summer (2014) ISBN 9780575132504
The Hanging Tree (3 November 2016) ISBN 9780575132559
The Furthest Station (28 September 2017) ISBN 9781473222427—novella, set between Foxglove Summer and The Hanging Tree
Lies Sleeping (6 November 2018) ISBN 9781473207813
The October Man (31 May 2019) – novella, set after Lies Sleeping in Germany, with Tobias Winter as the main character
False Value (20 February 2020) ISBN 9781473207851 (Hardback); ISBN 9781473207868 (Export Trade Paperback); ISBN 9781473207882 (eBook)
Tales from the Folly (November 2020) – short story collection
What Abigail Did That Summer (18 March 2021) – novella ISBN 9781473224346 (Hardback); ISBN 9781473224360 (eBook)
Amongst our Weapons (7 April 2022) ISBN 9781473226661 (Hardback)
Winter's Gifts (novella) (8 June 2023) (Hardback / eBook / AudioBook)
The Masquerades of Spring (novella) (5 September 2024) ISBN 1473224403 (Hardback / eBook / AudioBook)



Others

Genius Loci




= Short stories

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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



Rivers of London series


The short stories below are published in Tales from the Folly:

The Home Crowd Advantage in the 'London Edition' of Rivers of London and on Aaronovitch's blog
The Domestic in the special Waterstones edition of Whispers Under Ground
The Cockpit in the special Waterstones edition of Broken Homes
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Granny in the special Waterstones edition of Foxglove Summer
A Rare Book of Cunning Device in a special Audible-only edition read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
King of the Rats in the special Waterstones edition of The Hanging Tree
Favourite Uncle in the special Waterstones edition of Lies Sleeping
A Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Vanessa Sommer's Other Christmas List
Three Rivers, Two Husbands and a Baby
Three short pieces, labelled Moments, published on Aaronovitch's website
Moment One: London September 1966
Moment Two: Reynolds-Florence, Az. 2014
Moment Three: Tobias Winter -Meckenheim 2012




= Comics

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Rivers of London – Body Work

Body Work #1 – 16 July 2015
Body Work #2 – 19 August 2015
Body Work #3 – 16 September 2015
Body Work #4 – 21 October 2015
Body Work #5 – 20 November 2015
Body Work (collection/graphic novel) – 29 March 2016 ISBN 9781782761877



Rivers of London – Night Witch

Night Witch #1 – 16 March 2016
Night Witch #2 – 13 April 2016
Night Witch #3 – 18 May 2016
Night Witch (collection/graphic novel) – 1 November 2016 ISBN 9781785852930



Rivers of London – Black Mould

Black Mould #1 – 12 October 2016
Black Mould #2 – 16 November 2016
Black Mould #3 – 21 December 2016
Black Mould #4 – 1 February 2017
Black Mould #5 – 8 March 2017
Black Mould (collection/graphic novel) – 25 July 2017 ISBN 9781785855108



Rivers of London – Detective Stories

Detective Stories #1 – 7 June 2017
Detective Stories #2 – 12 July 2017
Detective Stories #3 – 9 August 2017
Detective Stories #4 – 13 September 2017
Detective Stories (collection/graphic novel) – 29 December 2017 ISBN 9781785861710



Rivers of London – Cry Fox

Cry Fox #1 - 8 November 2017
Cry Fox #2 - 13 December 2017
Cry Fox #3 - 17 January 2018
Cry Fox #4 - 25 April 2018
Cry Fox (collection/graphic novel) – 26 June 2018 ISBN 9781785861727



Rivers of London – Water Weed

Water Weed #1 - 20 June 2018
Water Weed #2 - 18 July 2018
Water Weed #3 - 15 August 2018
Water Weed #4 - 19 September 2018
Water Weed (collection/graphic novel) – 30 November 2018 ISBN 9781785865459



Rivers of London – Action at a Distance

Action at a Distance #1 - 17 October 2018
Action at a Distance #2 - 21 November 2018
Action at a Distance #3 - 19 December 2018
Action at a Distance #4 - 20 January 2019
Action at a Distance (collection/graphic novel) – 1 November 2019 ISBN 9781785865466



Rivers of London – The Fey & The Furious

The Fey & The Furious #1 - 6 November 2019
The Fey & The Furious #2 - 11 December 2019
The Fey & The Furious #3 - 8 January 2020
The Fey & The Furious #4 - 5 February 2020
The Fey & The Furious (collection/graphic novel) – 1 November 2020 ISBN 9781785865862



Rivers of London – Monday, Monday

Monday, Monday #1 - 7 July 2021
Monday, Monday #2 - 18 August 2021
Monday, Monday #3 - 1 September 2021
Monday, Monday #4 - 6 October 2021
Monday, Monday (collection/graphic novel) – 5 January 2021 ISBN 9781787736269



Rivers of London – Deadly Ever After

Deadly Ever After #1 - 18 May 2022
Deadly Ever After #2 - 22 June 2022
Deadly Ever After #3 - 10 August 2022
Deadly Ever After #4 - 21 September 2022
Deadly Ever After (collection/graphic novel) – 25 January 2023 ISBN 9781787738591



Rivers of London – Here Be Dragons

Here Be Dragons #1 - 12 July 2023
Here Be Dragons #2 - 23 August 2023
Here Be Dragons #3 - 6 September 2023
Here Be Dragons #4 - 28 October 2023
Here Be Dragons (collection/graphic novel) – 30 January 2024 ISBN 9781787740921




References






External links



Official website
Aaronovitch's blog
Ben Aaronovitch at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Norman Finkelstein
• Ben Aaronovitch
• Rivers of London (book series)
• Rivers of London (novel)
• Sam Aaronovitch
• David Aaronovitch
• Remembrance of the Daleks
• The Hanging Tree (Aaronovitch novel)
• Moon Over Soho
• Dalek
• Doctor Who season 25