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DOOMSDAY ORIGINAL H.G. WELLS SET HIS 1898 'WAR OF THE WORLDS' IN ENGLAND, NOT THE USA OF TODAY'S MOVIE

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050626
Author:Nick Walker, Globe Correspondent

WOKING, England - With "War of the Worlds" set to open in theaters Wednesday, those troublesome extraterrestrials are about to land again this time on the East Coast, in the highly anticipated Steven Spielberg-Tom Cruise vehicle. Makes you wonder, though, why the celestial out-of-towners always seem to home in on the USA, at least on the big screen.

In the original 1898 story, a ripping yarn by 19th-century British sci-fi novelist H.G. Wells, they landed in Woking, this town in the south of England where the writer lived for 18 prolific months.

The most conspicuous sign of Woking's central ...

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