• Tor.com wallpaper

    by  • 6/24/2008 • life • 13 Comments

    I didn’t really think to save the wallpaper offerings from tor.com in addition to the free e-books, but I have decided to see what I can find by way of search engines and random guesswork, as it appears that the people at Tor aren’t cleaning their servers of the old images all that quickly.


    Mostly, I don’t SEE the desktop of my computer, what with it being completely covered by a multitude of windows that have other things to look at. It’s like decorating the floor before you lay carpet on top of it; only you will know it’s there, even if you can’t quite remember what it looks like anymore… Anyhow, I do enjoy a challenge, so…


    Here’s what has been put up so far, with links to the largest version made available; for anything else, you can scale it down on your own, or guess the URL based on these typical sizes:

    iPhone 800-480 1024-768 1280-800 1280-1024 1680-1050

    Thanks to Linda for all the new links!

    Jul 4:

    Jun 27:

    Jun 20:

    Jun 13:

    Jun 6:

    May 30:

    May 23:

    May 16:

    May 9:

    May 2:

    Apr 25:

    • Paintings by Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo. Their latest book is Imaginistix: Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell: The All New Collection

    Apr 18:

    Apr 11:

    Apr 4:

    Mar 28:

    Mar 21:

    Mar 14:

    Mar 7:




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    13 Responses to Tor.com wallpaper

    1. Linda
      6/25/2008 at 12:50 am

      That’s great. You had some of the ones I didn’t. I am still missing the very first ones offered:

      February 29
      Todd Lockwood’s cover for To Light a Candle by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
      Stephan Martiniere’s cover for Escapement by Jay Lake

      The other one offered for March 7 was
      John Jude Palencar’s cover for Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint

    2. Linda
      6/25/2008 at 12:57 am

      I think this covers the ones you are missing. (I used logic, too, to determine the ones from before I started receiving newsletters.)

      Pablo Defendini’s art for Little Brother

      Michael Komark

      Michael Kaluta

      Gregory Manchess’ painting for Omni

      Kinoku Craft

      Bruce Jensen

      Eric Fortune

      Pablo Defendini’s cover for The Good Faeries of New York

      John Picacio

      Bob Eggleton

      Shelly Wan

      Scott M. Fischer

      Stanley Meltzoff

      Gregory Manchess’ painting Something Wicked

      Raymond Swanland

      Dan Dos Santos’ painting for charity

      Shelley Eshkar

      Sam Weber

      Luis Royo

      Jon Foster

    4. xinit
      6/25/2008 at 3:41 pm

      That’s great; I’ll add the links into the body of the main post. Comments with plenty of URLs can get flagged as spam, so I’ll take a peek in the bucket where it throws all the pill ads.

    5. Linda
      6/25/2008 at 5:48 pm

      It looks like you have them all, but it would not show them to me.

    6. xinit
      6/25/2008 at 6:11 pm

      I just copied your links into the body. I have the system here set to auto-spam link heavy comments; they usually are spammers trying to sell me “v14gr4″ or something… somewhat necessary evil. I had to go fetch your comments out of the bucket.

    7. Linda
      6/25/2008 at 8:11 pm

      You could delete most of my posts now, since you added the links to the main body of text. But, the following information might be useful to those looking for wallpapers of other sizes:

      The following wallpapers come in iPhone, 800×480, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1600×1200, and 1680×1050 sizes:

      Tristan Elwell
      Dan Dos Santos (cover for Tha Shaktra)
      Dave McKean
      Pablo Defendini (print inspired by Little Brother)
      Stephen Youll
      Michael Komarck
      Seth Fisher
      Gregory Manchess (painting for Omni)
      Kinuko Craft
      Jeff Jones
      Bruce Jensen
      Eric Fortune

      The following wallpapers come in iPhone, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1600×1200, and 1680×1050 sizes, but apparently not the 800×480 size:

      Michael Kaluta
      Pablo Defendini (cover for The Good Fairies of New York)
      John Picacio
      Bob Eggleton
      Julie Bell
      Boris Vallejo
      Matthew C. Nielsen
      Darrell K. Sweet
      Shelly Wan
      Scott M. Fischer
      Stanley Meltzoff
      Gregory Manchess (“Something Wicked”)
      Raymond Swanland
      Dan Dos Santos (MicroVisions charity painting)
      Shelley Eshkar
      Luis Royo

      The following wallpapers come in iPhone, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1680×1050 sizes, and apparently instead of 1600×1200 has 1680×1200, but not 800×480:

      Sam Weber
      Jon Foster
      John Jude Palencar (but iPhone is given instead as 480×320)

      The following wallpapers come in iPhone, 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1680×1200, but not 800×480 and the iPhone size is saved as “480-320″ instead of “iPhone”:

      Donato Giancola (cover for City by Clifford D. Simak)

      I do not have them, but I believe the first two wallpapers, by Todd Lockwood and Stephan Martiniere, came in sizes 1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, and 1680×1050.

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    9. Linda
      6/27/2008 at 10:32 pm

      Oops. I put Stephen Youll in the category that has the 800×480 size by mistake.

    10. Sam
      7/18/2008 at 11:18 pm

      Looks like all the wallpaper links are now dead. I believe I have all the wallpapers though, including the Feb 29th set of Todd Lockwood and Stephan Martiniere.

    11. Michael Gallaher
      7/28/2008 at 2:07 am

      Can anyone send me the “The snake-wheel symbol from Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series (designed by Matthew C. Nielsen)” It is one I am missing.

      Email is gallaher#mike@gmail.com

      Just take out the # for the email addy.

      Thanks

    12. Sam
      7/28/2008 at 8:57 am

      Tor.com is making available all the wallpapers and novels they had previously offered. According to the post, it’s only until yesterday, but I just checked and its still up (for who knows how much longer)

      http://tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=577

    13. Yousuf
      7/25/2009 at 7:26 pm

      Is there a chance someone can send me Raymond Swanland’s wallpapers on the following email address:

      yousuf dot raza a t gmail dot com

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