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.

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.

The novel envisioned all books and periodicals being viewed on portable electronic devices called "readers" in the year 2070, when it is set.