| Beige Planet Mars | |
| 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 |
| 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.