Woking, Where the Martians First Landed
Interesting profile, in the Boston Globe, of Woking, England, site of the Martians' landing in the original The War of the Worlds.
Woking is in the south of England. Wells lived there for 18 months. Acording to the Globe article (written by a free lance writer who also lives there), Woking has even put up a 23-foot hight Martian tripod as a tribute to the town's place in the novel. In front of the tripod, half-embedded in the walway, is a cylindical pod resembling those in which the invaders arrived. A few yards away is an H.G. Wells conference center. As the story well puts it, Woking is "War of the Worlds Ground Zero." You can even go on guided walks based on Wells's classic.
The town is further described as "gritty" but surrounded by lush countryside. It is also "vibrant, multicultural, and somewhat schizophrenic."
Makes me want to go there--epicenter of doomsday, or not.
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Woking is in the south of England. Wells lived there for 18 months. Acording to the Globe article (written by a free lance writer who also lives there), Woking has even put up a 23-foot hight Martian tripod as a tribute to the town's place in the novel. In front of the tripod, half-embedded in the walway, is a cylindical pod resembling those in which the invaders arrived. A few yards away is an H.G. Wells conference center. As the story well puts it, Woking is "War of the Worlds Ground Zero." You can even go on guided walks based on Wells's classic.
The town is further described as "gritty" but surrounded by lush countryside. It is also "vibrant, multicultural, and somewhat schizophrenic."
Makes me want to go there--epicenter of doomsday, or not.
Technorati Tags:
Mars, Martians, movies, books, literature, reading, England, doomsday, H.G. Wells, science fiction, travel, sci-fi, Victorians, tourism
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