Beige Planet Mars
{{Short description|1998 novel by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham}}
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{{Infobox book
|name = Beige Planet Mars
|image = Beige Planet Mars.jpg
|caption =
|cover_artist = Mark Salwowski
|author = Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham
|series = Doctor Who book:
Virgin New Adventures
|release_number = 16
|subject = Featuring:
Bernice Summerfield
|release_date = October 1998
|publisher = Virgin Books
|pages =
| 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."Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s" by Adam Rowe, 2023, {{ISBN|9781647000707}}
Writing
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."{{cite web | url=https://jaowriter.net/2014/08/14/throwback-interview-mark-clapham-2002/ | title=Throwback Interview: Mark Clapham (2002) | date=14 August 2014 }}
Plot
The novel is set on Mars and draws on previous depictions of the planet in the New Adventures.
References
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External links
- {{Isfdb title|id=371521}}
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{{Bernice Summerfield stories|selected=Books}}
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Category:1998 science fiction novels
Category:Virgin New Adventures
Category:Novels by Lance Parkin