Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born 22 February 1964)[2] 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.
He wrote one episode for Casualty (1990) and was then a regular writer on the science fiction series Jupiter Moon.[9]
He subsequently wrote or co-wrote three Doctor Who spin-off novels in the Virgin PublishingNew 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.[citation needed]
Proposed serials of “Doctor Who”edit
Knight Fall
In May 1987, Aaronovitch submitted “Knight Fall” to the Doctor Who production office for Season 25. The story concerned privatization.[10] Script editor Andrew Cartmel liked the story ideas, but felt that the script was inappropriate for the series and had too many supporting characters.[10]
Transit
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.[10] Even though it is unexplainable to how 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.[10]
Bad Destination
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.[11] The story, however, was abandoned when, in September 1989, the BBC cancelled Doctor Who after its 26 Season, due to declining audiences.[10][11] In July 2011, Big Finish Productions released the story as Earth Aid, by Aaronovitch and Cartmel.[10]
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
Referencesedit
^England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1837–2005
^"Ben Dylan AARONOVITCH – Personal Appointments (free information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk.
^"Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
^Barker, Martin (1992). A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-61703-747-4. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
^John Grahl (8 June 1998). "Obituary: Sam Aaronovitch". The Independent. Archived from the original on 1 September 2010.
^The Old Camdenians Club. Retrieved 31 January 2015
^"Best-selling Wimbledon author makes a splash in capital's libraries for Cityread 2015 | SWLondoner". 7 April 2015.
^"Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Novels #7 - Remembrance of the Daleks". 4 September 2013.
^"Ben Aaronovitch". Zeno Agency. 16 January 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
^ abcdefA brief history of “Doctor Who” stories-The Lost Stories-Patrick Sullivan, Shannon
^"Del Rey Buys Ben Aaronovitch's RIVERS OF LONDON Series..." Zeno Literary Agency. 1 March 2010. Archived from the original on 14 September 2010. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
^"The Hanging Tree Announcement". 16 September 2016. Archived from the original on 14 December 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
^"Book and Comic Chronology". Temporarily Significant. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
^"Lies Sleeping (Peter Grant, #7)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
^Aaronovitch, Ben (9 January 2019). The October Man. ISBN 9781473224339.
External linksedit
Wikiquote has quotations related to Ben Aaronovitch.