Brockman, John

Brockman, John, The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years (New York Simon Schuster January 12, 2000). 

Brockman, John and Matson, Katinka. How Things Are A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind. William Morrow and Company Inc., New York. 1995. 

I mentioned that my first book. Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty was one of my better-selling books. Note, however, that my Mind-Bending Puzzles calendars, published each year, outsell my books. I stayed with St. Martin s Press for the next three books, reaching one of my highest cash advances orMazes for the Mind Computers and the Unexpected. The 42,000 advance was achieved with the help of literary agent John Brockman, the world-renowned agent for scientist writers. 

To show you how selective Brockman can be for the books he decides to represent, I had a book deal ready to go with Wiley for my book A Passion for Mathematics. I asked John if he wanted to handle the contract work and get his cut of the royalties and handle foreign-rights deals, and he declined because (I think) he didn t feel that the book would have wide enough appeal. Now, that s pretty selective, given that I already had a publisher interested and offering a 15,000 advance. He also was not interested in representing Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves. 

A few years ago, literary agent John Brockman asked me what I thought the most important invention was of the last 2,000 years. My response was paper. In 105 ad, Ts ai Lun reported the invention of paper to the Chinese Emperor. Ts ai Lun was an official to the Chinese Imperial court, and I consider his early form of paper to be humanity s most important invention and progenitor of the Internet. Although recent archaeological evidence places the actual invention of papermaking 200... 

Davies, T.A. and Brockman, G.F. 1972. Physiochemical aspects of electromembrane processes. In Industrial Processing with Membranes (R.E. Lacey and S. Loeb, eds), pp. 21-37. Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley Sons, New York. 

The Science Masters Series is a global publishing venture consisting of original science books written by leading scientists and published by a worldwide team of twenty-six publishers assembled by John Brockman. The series was conceived by Anthony Cheetham of Orion Publishers and John Brockman of Brockman Inc., a New York literary agency, and developed in coordination with BasicBooks. 

K. E. Drexler, Engines of Creation The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, John Brockman Associates, New York, 1986. 

C. J. Brockman, Electroorganic Chemistry, John Wiley and Sons, New York (1926) Bibliography of Electroorganic Syntheses 1801-1975), R. Alkire and S. Swann, Electrochemical Society, Pennington, New Jersey (1980). 

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