The War of the Worlds

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same.

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

Night, the mother of fear and mystery."
H.G. Wells

Another impressive Woking Sculpture. This one is 7 metres tall (23 feet or so in old money), and was created in 1998. Still looks as good now as it did then :-)
It is a Martian from the War of the Worlds, which was set on Horsell Common. The Martian is heading from Horsell to London. the sculpture also includes the Cylinder in which it came from Mars, and the bacteria that ultimately destroyed it.