James Cooke Brown

Born James Cooke Brown
July 21, 1921(1921-07-21)[1]
Tagbilaran, Bohol, Philippine Islands[1]
Died February 13, 2000(2000-02-13) (aged 78)
Tierra del Fuego, Argentina[2]
Pen name Jim Brown
Occupation Linguists[1]
Education B.A., University of Minnesota 1946, Ph.D., 1948[1]
Genres Science fiction
Spouse(s) (1st wife)Lujoye Fuller Brown[3]
(2nd wife)Evelyn Ruth Anderson[4]
Children Jefferson(born 1944),
Jill(born 1945),
Jennifer Fuller Brown(born 1965)[4][1]
Relative(s) Parents: Bryan Burtis Brown and Violet Mary Cooke[1]

Dr. James Cooke Brown (July 21, 1921 – February 13, 2000) was a sociologist and science fiction author.[5] He is notable for creating the artificial 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.

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]

Contents

Bibliography

Science Fiction

Sociology

Loglan

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Volume 2, Page 833, Authors:R. Reginald, Douglas Menville, Mary A. Burgess, Publisher:Wildside Press LLC, 2010, ISBN 9780941028776
  2. ^ a b About the Author, Job Market of the Future
  3. ^ 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, ISBN 1-877665-00-Z
  4. ^ a b The job market of the future: using computers to humanize economies, By James Cooke Brown, Page 319, Publisher:M.E. Sharpe, 2001, ISBN 9780765607324
  5. ^ The Emissary, (nv) Astounding Jul 1952, Astounding Science Fiction (UK) Dec 1952, BROWN, JIM (chron.)
  6. ^ Designing His Own ‘Careers’, How Life Imitates a Board Game, by Rachel Hutton, Issue 3: The Outdoors Issue, Summer 2002, ReadyMade
  7. ^ The Troika incident: a tetralogue in two parts, Author:James Cooke Brown, Publisher:Doubleday, 1970, Length:399 pages, ASIN: B0006C09JO
  8. ^ Fantastic Universe: March 1954, "The Love Machine", By Dr Jim Brown
  9. ^ Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1951.
  10. ^ Review: The Job Market of the Future, RevLeft
Notes
a) He serves as a combat navigator in the Army Air Forces.
b) He received a doctorate in sociology, mathematical statistics and philosophy from the Univ. of Minnesota in 1952.
c) He published a novella ("The Emissary", under the by-line "Jim Brown") he wrote in Mexico City in "Astounding Science Fiction".
d) Shortly before his death he completed "From Job Markets to Labor Markets" in which he proposed a computer-moderated economic system dividing work among all who seek employment.
e) He was a guardian of civil rights and joined fellow educators in a 1963 protest of a restaurant's 'whites only' policy; the sit-in resulted in his arrest and jail time.
f) He vehemently opposed the Vietnam War.
g) Was one of the writers in the publication: Brown, J.C. and Greenhood, W. (1991). Paternity, jokes and song: A possible evolutionary scenario for the origin of language and mind. J. of Social and Biological Structures.14(3), 255-309.

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