Beige Planet Mars

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Beige Planet Mars

Author	Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham
Cover artist	Mark Salwowski
Series	Doctor Who book: Virgin New Adventures
Release number	16
Subject	Featuring: Bernice Summerfield
Publisher	Virgin Books
Publication date	October 1998
ISBN	0-426-20529-4
Preceded by	Another Girl, Another Planet
Followed by	Where Angels Fear

Beige Planet Mars is a 1998 novel by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

The cover features a Martian canal, a reference to a popular trope in science fiction stories and art about Mars.^[1]

Mark Clapham explained, "Lance [Parkin] asked me [to co-write it]. He wanted to write for the Benny range, but didn't want to write a whole one. I had this murder plot I wanted to do, and he wanted to write a book about Mars."^[2]

The novel is set on Mars and draws on previous depictions of the planet in the New Adventures.

• Beige Planet Mars title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database