John Wyndham The Invisible Man of Science Fiction

Endeavors to reveal who the reclusive writer John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was through interviews with colleagues flatmates family friends and scientists His life as can best be constructed is revealed and his body of work once settling on the name John Wyndham is analyzed and discussed An actor portrays him by quoting things he wrote that have survived and the only piece of footage ever recorded of him is examined The emphasis is on what his personality may have been the scientific ramifications of his themes and the influence of his writings and the film adaptations of those on later generations