Dr. James Cooke Brown was an American sociologist and science fiction author. He is notable for creating the artificial languageLoglan and for designing the Parker Brothersboard gameCareers. Brown's novel The Troika Incident 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 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.
The Troika incident: a tetralogue in two parts - James Cooke Brown, Doubleday, 1970
Sociology
Cooperative group formation: a problem in social engineering, Univ. of Minnesota., 1951
The Job Market of the Future: Using Computers to Humanize Economies, James Cooke Brown, M.E. Sharpe, 2001,
, BROWN J. C. ; GREENHOOD W., 1983, vol. 8, no2, pp. 7–53, Journal of Social and Biological Structures, ISSN 0748-772X
Loglan
Loglan 1: a logical language, James Cooke Brown, Loglan Institute, 1975
Loglan 2: methods of construction, James Cooke Brown, Loglan Institute, University Microfilms, 1981
Loglan 3: speaking Loglan : programmed textbook on the phonology, basic vocabulary, and grammar of the simple Loglan sentence, James Cooke Brown, Lujoye Fuller Brown, Loglan Institute, University Microfilms, 1965
Loglan 4: a Loglan-English dictionary, James Cooke Brown, Lujoye Fuller Brown, Loglan Institute, 1970
Loglan 5: an English-Loglan dictionary, James Cooke Brown, Lujoye Fuller Brown, Loglan Institute, University Microfilms, 1981
Loglan 4 & 5: a Loglan-English/English-Loglan dictionary, James Cooke Brown, Loglan Institute, 1975
