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The Watertower

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This great man is remembered in his home city merely by a plaque on the station wall and Brassey Street, a little sidestreet near the waterworks in Boughton. The Chicago Bridge and Iron Company has built many of the water spheres and spheroids found in the United States.

I’d say it’s a little on the short side really which stops it having the impact that it could do, but it’s still very creepy, particularly when you look at the detail in the pictures to tell a different story to the words. A cross section of a spheroid in two directions (east-west or north-south) is an ellipse, but in only one direction (top-bottom) is it a perfect circle. Whether he is writing science fiction, horror, and stories that are just unexplainable, Crew invites his audiences to explore the bizarre and unknown. Its designer, Adrian Fisher, explained that "visitors start by choosing one of the three coloured brick strips.

The illustrations are authentic for the setting and time period and are appropriate for the mood of the story. Unfortunately, despite Woolman's able renderings in acrylic, chalk and pencil, the design--which shifts between horizontal and vertical orientations--only underscores the feeling of disorientation raised in the text. Water towers can be surrounded by ornate coverings including fancy brickwork, a large ivy-covered trellis or they can be simply painted.

The book is cleverly designed, forcing the reader to rotate it and simulating the round shape of the watertower itself. When turning the pages, we had to turn the whole book around, as if we (the readers) were being manipulated by a strange something in the story. Two companies in New York build water towers, both of which are family businesses in operation since the 19th century. Some water towers are also used as observation towers, and some restaurants, such as the Goldbergturm in Sindelfingen, Germany, or the second of the three Kuwait Towers, in the State of Kuwait.

The Watertower is a science fiction/horror/fantasy story that was written by Gary Crew and illustrated by Steven Woolman. The orientation of the book rotates throughout the book, ending on a full 180 degree turn, possibly showing bubbas transition. Most of the pictures had nothing to do with the story which was confusing and what was happening in the story was only shown in small excerpts on the page. We thought that on the surface this book began seeming fairly boring and mundane however it got progressively more interesting and creepy.

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