the six-year-old Judy. His secret laboratory and his inventions. Financial Ventures. John uses the author as a go-between to sell the inventions. He speculates financially and is cheated. He tries to study directly with financiers. Scandalous Adolescence. John has gay affairs, and courts a much older woman named Europa. After that, it is indirectly hinted that he copulated with his own mother. Methods of a Young Anthropologist. John interviews famous people using various ruses. He travels to France, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia. He plays the part of a backward child while visiting a psychiatrist. The World's Plight. John discusses current affairs with the narrator, and asserts that he has no interest in helping humanity. Strange Encounters. John goes on "holiday" in Scotland, and the narrator hears bizarre reports from two climbers named McWhist and Norton. John in the Wilderness. John returns and gives an account of his austerities and his spiritual experiences. John Seeks his Kind. He develops telepathy, and uses it to discover two beings similar to himself: a musical madman named James Jones, and a crippled child in the Hebrides. Engineering Problems. He conceives the idea of creating a colony of "supernormals", and builds a yacht and a plane. Jacqueline. The story of a superhuman in Paris, who was born in 1765. Adlan. The story of a superhuman in Egypt, born in 1512, who communicates with John 35 years after his own death. Ng-Gunko and Lo. A 12-year-old Ethiopian boy and a 17-year-old Siberian girl join John. The Skid's First Voyage. They travel to the South Pacific, picking up many colleagues on the way. On arrival they take over an island, massacring the original inhabitants. The Colony is Founded. John and Lo briefly return to England. The Colony in Being. The narrator travels to the island and describes the colony. The Beginning of the End. The island is discovered by a British surveying vessel called the Viking. This is followed by a visit from two British light cruisers, a visit from the Soviets, and a final attempt at mass arrest by an international expedition. All are repelled with psionic attacks. The End. Mercenaries invade the island, but are driven away with harsh psionic attacks. On 15 December 1933, the colonists deliberately destroy their own island. Film rights George Pal bought the rights to Odd John and in 1966 Castle of Frankenstein magazine reported that actor David McCallum would