Woking commemorates writer H G Wells with a statue of a Martian fighting machine in the town centre.
Wells came to Woking in 1895 - at the start of his writing career. Whilst in Woking, Wells wrote not only The War of the Worlds, but also The Invisible Man (as well as several articles and the book Wheels of Chance). Wells had recently married for the second time and had borrowed £100 from his mother-in-law to help furnish a small, semi-detached villa in Maybury Road. He lived there quite happily until the end of 1896. The Time Machine (his first great science-fiction novel), was published in 1895.
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