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Exhibition: Aliens return to Liverpool

Science fiction books and magazines loaned to the Lightbox Arts Centre in Woking, Surrey have just returned to Liverpool, from the Alien Invasion exhibition, celebrating the work of H. G. Wells whose Martian invaders in THE WAR OF THE WORLDS landed in the outskirts of Woking.

Books from the Science Fiction Foundation Collection on display at the Barbican Centre's "Into the Unknown" exhibition.
Books from the Science Fiction Foundation Collection on display at a similar exhibition: the Barbican Centre’s “Into the Unknown” exhibition.

The exhibition was a great success, with visitor figures of 14,600.