Young Wizards wallpapers

Please note: to help us conserve bandwidth, all our wallpaper files will soon be moved to hosting at Box.net. Thanks for your patience while we get this done!

**New! A Wizard of Mars digital wallpaper series**

To celebrate the release of A Wizard of Mars, we're rolling out a new series of wallpapers showing the background locations of scenes in the book. All these wallpapers have been designed using actual Martian laser altimetry and radar terrain data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor probe. By plugging this data into the fabulous Terragen scenery-generation software, DD was able to use these real-world landscapes of Mars to scout locations for the book's events. Now you too can see what Kit, Nita and the other characters in A Wizard of Mars see as they stand on the surface of the Red Planet!

New wallpapers will be released approximately every other week until the end of September. (For those of you who've visited this page previously and have noticed that the "Aram Chaos / Red Rede" wallpaper is missing: a better one will be posted over the course of the next month.)

First up: the Boys' Road Trip arrives on Martian soil in the wake of the cracking of the mysterious superegg...

Kit's, Ronan's and Darryl's view of the landscape inside Stokes,
from chapter 7 of A Wizard of Mars
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ETA: We will be adding larger resolutions later in the week. Please check back with us shortly.
(Also on the way: a "Blue Dawn" variant.)

Nita's, Carmela's and S'reee's view of dustfall
over the eroded lavaflow terrain of Arsia Chasmata,
from chapter 6 of A Wizard of Mars
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A view from above the crater De Vaucouleurs
as alien wizardry breaks loose in Gusev,
from chapter 9 of A Wizard of Mars

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Coming soon (when we resolve contrast issues):
Part of the constellation Orion hangs over Kit's view
from the top of Elysium Mons (46,000 feet
above Martian "sea level"), looking south toward Albor Tholus
and across the great plain toward Zephyrus Fossae:
from chapter 5 of A Wizard of Mars

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