Aaronovitch, Ben
Entry updated 9 September 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1964- ) UK author, initially best known for his Television involvement, whose first genre work was the script for the Doctor Who serial Remembrance of the Daleks (1988), one of the most successful adventures of that period in the series' life. Aaronovitch novelized it as Remembrance of the Daleks (1990). After the 1989 cancellation of Doctor Who, he wrote three contributions to the Doctor Who: The New Adventures series: Transit (1993), The Also People (1995) and So Vile a Sin (1997).
The very popular Rivers of London/Peter Grant sequence beginning with Rivers of London (2011; vt Midnight Riot 2011) is a Crosshatch Urban Fantasy [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] featuring an engaging Black Metropolitan Police detective who is involved in police-procedural investigations complicated by Magic and Supernatural Creatures, set for the most part in a fantasy-tinged version of London whose river-gods take engaging human form; The Furthest Station (2017) focuses on the rich territory of London Underground, including the London Underground itself. The novel series continues, accompanied by Comics set in the same milieu which are not novel adaptations but interpolated or tangential stories each assembled as a Graphic Novel, the first of these being Body Work (graph 2016). [JC/GS/DRL]
Ben Dylan Aaronovitch
born London: February 1964
works
series
Doctor Who
- Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks (London: Target, 1990) [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: pb/Alistair Pearson]
Doctor Who: The New Adventures
- The New Adventures: Transit (London: Virgin, 1993) [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The New Adventures: pb/Peter Elson]
- The New Adventures: The Also People (London: Virgin, 1995) [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The New Adventures: pb/Tony Masero]
- The New Adventures: So Vile a Sin (London: Virgin, 1997) with Kate Orman [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The New Adventures: pb/Jon Sullivan]
Doctor Who: Bernice Summerfield
- Genius Loci (London: Big Finish, 2006) [tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: Bernice Summerfield: hb/Adrian Salmon]
Rivers of London/Peter Grant
- Rivers of London (London: Gollancz, 2011) [Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Stephen Walter]
- Midnight Riot (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2011) [vt of the above: Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Wes Youssi]
- Moon Over Soho (London: Gollancz, 2011) [Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Stephen Walter]
- Whispers Under Ground (London: Gollancz, 2012) [Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Stephen Walter]
- Broken Homes (London: Gollancz, 2013) [Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Stephen Walter]
- Foxglove Summer (London: Gollancz, 2014) [Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Patrick Knowles]
- The Hanging Tree (London: Gollancz, 2016) [Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Stephen Walter]
- The Furthest Station (London: Gollancz, 2017) [Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Stephen Walter]
- Lies Sleeping (London: Gollancz, 2018) [Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Stephen Walter]
- The October Man (London: Gollancz, 2019) [Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Stephen Walter]
- False Value (London: Gollancz, 2020) [Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Stephen Walter]
- Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection (Napierville, Illinois: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, 2020) [coll: ebook: Rivers of London/Peter Grant: na/Stephen Walter]
- What Abigail Did That Summer (London: Gollancz, 2021) [Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Stephen Walter]
- Amongst Our Weapons (London: Orion, 2022) [Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Stephen Walter]
- Winter's Gifts (London: Orion, 2023) [Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Stephen Walter]
- The Masquerades of Spring (London: Orion, 2024) [Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/]
Rivers of London/Peter Grant graphic novels
- Body Work (London: Titan Comics, 2016) with Andrew Cartmel and Lee Sullivan [graph: Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Lee Sullivan]
- Night Witch (London: Titan Comics, 2016) with Andrew Cartmel and Lee Sullivan [graph: Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Lee Sullivan]
- Black Mould (London: Titan Comics, 2017) with Andrew Cartmel and Lee Sullivan [graph: Rivers of London/Peter Grant: hb/Lee Sullivan]
- Detective Stories (London: Titan Comics, 2017) with Andrew Cartmel and Lee Sullivan [graph: Rivers of London/Peter Grant: pb/Lee Sullivan]
- Cry Fox (London: Titan Comics, 2018) with Andrew Cartmel and Lee Sullivan [graph: Rivers of London/Peter Grant: pb/Lee Sullivan]
- Water Weed (London: Titan Comics, 2018) with Andrew Cartmel and Lee Sullivan [graph: Rivers of London/Peter Grant: pb/Lee Sullivan]
- Action at a Distance (London: Titan Comics, 2019) with Andrew Cartmel [graph: Rivers of London/Peter Grant: pb/]
- The Fey and the Furious (London: Titan Comics, 2020) with Andrew Cartmel [graph: Rivers of London/Peter Grant: pb/]
- Monday, Monday (London: Titan Comics, 2021) with Andrew Cartmel [graph: Rivers of London/Peter Grant: pb/]
- Deadly Ever After (London: Titan Comics, 2022) with Andrew Cartmel [graph: Rivers of London/Peter Grant: pb/]
- Here Be Dragons (London: Titan Comics, 2023) with Andrew Cartmel and James Swallow [graph: Rivers of London/Peter Grant: pb/]
links
- The Folly: Ben Aaronovitch's website
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: Crosshatch; Urban Fantasy.
- Picture Gallery
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