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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.
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| 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 |
The cover features a Martian canal, a reference to a popular trope in science fiction stories and art about Mars.[1]
Writing
editMark 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]
Plot
editThe novel is set on Mars and draws on previous depictions of the planet in the New Adventures.
References
edit- ^ "Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s" by Adam Rowe, 2023, ISBN 9781647000707
- ^ https://jaowriter.net/2014/08/14/throwback-interview-mark-clapham-2002/
External links
edit- Beige Planet Mars title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database