James Cooke Brown | |
|---|---|
 Brown in 1979 in San Diego | |
| Born | July 21, 1921[1] Tagbilaran, Bohol, Philippine Islands[1] |
| Died | February 13, 2000 (aged 78) Tierra del Fuego, Argentina[2] |
| Pen name | Jim Brown |
| Occupation | Linguistics[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.A., University of Minnesota 1946, Ph.D., 1948[1] |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Spouse | (1st wife) Lujoye Fuller Brown[3] (2nd wife) Evelyn Ruth Anderson[4] |
| Children | 3 |
James Cooke Brown (July 21, 1921 – February 13, 2000) was an American sociologist and science fiction author.[5] He is notable for creating the constructed language Loglan and for designing the Parker Brothers board game Careers.[6]
Brown's novel The Troika Incident (Doubleday, 1970)[7] describes a worldwide free knowledge base similar to the Internet. The novel begins with the belief that the world is on the eve of self-destruction, but then it presents a world about a century from now which is a paradise of peace and prosperity, all based on ideas, movements, and knowledge presently available in the world. In its metafictional structure, the novel is a call for social change, not through revolution but through free education and the resilience of human ingenuity. Long out of print and relatively rare, an e-book version (Amazon Kindle) of the novel was released in 2012. The novel envisioned all books and periodicals being viewed on portable electronic devices called "readers" in the year 2070, when it is set.
Among his other achievements, Brown designed, and had built, a three-hulled sailboat, called a trimaran. He utilized this boat to sail to many parts of the world.
While on a South American cruise with his wife, Brown was admitted to a hospital in Argentina, where he died at the age of 78.[2]
- ^ a b c d Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Volume 2, Page 833, Authors:R. Reginald, Douglas Menville, Mary A. Burgess, Publisher:Wildside Press LLC, 2010, ISBN 978-0-941028-77-6
- ^ a b "About the Author". Archived from the original on June 8, 2009. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Job Market of the Future - ^ Foreword:Finally, I wish above all to acknowledge the ten years' collaboration of my (then) wife, Lujoye Fuller Brown, often amounting to coauthorship,, LOGLAN 1: A LOGICAL LANGUAGE, Revised Fourth Edition, by James Cooke Brown. The ISBN printed in the document (1-877665-00-Z) is invalid.
- ^ The job market of the future: using computers to humanize economies, By James Cooke Brown, Page 319, Publisher:M.E. Sharpe, 2001, ISBN 978-0-7656-0732-4
- ^ The Emissary, (nv) Astounding Jul 1952 Archived 2011-11-08 at the Wayback Machine, Astounding Science Fiction (UK) Dec 1952, BROWN, JIM (chron.)
- ^ Designing His Own ‘Careers’, How Life Imitates a Board Game, by Rachel Hutton, Issue 3: The Outdoors Issue, Summer 2002, ReadyMade
- ^ The Troika incident: a tetralogue in two parts[permanent dead link], Author:James Cooke Brown, Publisher:Doubleday, 1970, Length:399 pages, ASIN: B0006C09JO