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].

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