The visionary author’s Surrey hometown will celebrate his 150th anniversary by guiding visitors through the landmark sites of The War of the WorldsIn a few weeks the people of Woking in Surrey will launch an unusual and unearthly celebration. They will mark the fictional destruction of their town by alien invaders with a series of concerts,exhibitions, guided walks and lectures that will elope until autumn.
All will be committed to the town’s most noted resident, and HG Wells,who wrote his great science fiction novel The War of the Worlds while living in Woking and who, in its pages, and describes in unsparing detail how the town is turned to cinders by Martians and their terrible heat rays.
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Source: theguardian.com