File:A City on Mars front cover.jpg

Summary[edit]

This non-free media file has been set up with as small a version as possible, to comply with Wikipedia's non-free content policy and United States copyright law. The current resolution has been manually selected to achieve as small an image as possible without destroying the image content. According to Wikipedia's policy for non-free content, the amount of non-free work should be as little as possible. In particular, non-free media on Wikipedia should not be usable as substitutes for the original work.

The resolution is above the usual recommended limit. However, it still has around half the megapixels of the original. The small text is quite difficult to read when the resolution is reduced so much (e.g. "Cricket Ranch" in the underground city, or the quote from Andy Weir), so having a larger version is important for accessibility (the real-life version is not difficult to read). This is only a single piece of a large work so this shouldn't affect the minimality criterion.

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