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| Author | Lance Parkin andMark Clapham |
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| 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 byLance Parkin andMark Clapham featuring the fictional archaeologistBernice Summerfield. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running Britishscience fiction television seriesDoctor Who.
The cover features aMartian 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 onMars and draws on previous depictions of the planet in the New Adventures.