Ben Aaronovitch
Sign in to saveBritish author, game designer, and screenwriter (born 1964)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 22 February 1964
- Works
- 88
Top works
- PC Grant Collection Set
- Rivers of London
- Whispers Underground
- Amongst Our Weapons
- The Furthest Station
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1964
audio dramaaudiobookurban fantasy
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 430
- Total plays
- 13,507
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ben+Aaronovitch">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 75,842x
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 53,955x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 22,021x
- Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,930x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? When I’m considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, “Who knows why the fuck anything happens?””
- “I wasn’t ready to believe in ghosts, but that’s the thing about empirical experience: it’s the real thing.”
- “She had the startled rabbit look that civilians get after five minutes of helping the police with their inquiries. If they stay calm for too long it’s a sign that they’re professional villains or foreign or just plain stupid. All of which can get you locked up if you’re not careful. If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it’s your safest bet.”
- “Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.”
- “It’s a bland box of a building built in the 1970s; it was considered to be so lacking in architectural merit that there was talk of listing it so that it could be preserved for posterity as an awful warning.”
- “My hand was shaking a little and the pin proved harder to pull than I expected—I guess that’s a safety feature on a grenade.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ben
- Family name
- Aaronovich
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London Borough of Camden
- Father
- Sam Aaronovitch
- Sibling
- David Aaronovitch
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Rivers of London
- Field of work
- creative writing
- Official website
- www.benaaronovitch.com
- Image
- Ben Aaronovitch.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1964-02-22
- birth name
- Ben Dylan Aaronovitch
- official blog URL
- temporarilysignificant.blogspot.com
- social media followers
- 35435
- nominated for
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
via Wikidata · CC0