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"There are certain writers whose thought is so important that it doesn't matter whether you agree with them or not."
— Abyss Magazine, 1974

he founded The Edge Foundation, Inc. online magazine [est. 1996]
John Brockman homepage at 'The Edge' website
John Brockman's personal website [est. 5/2017]
browse books at the John Brockman Store {returns 70+ items} at Amazon
John Brockman entry at Wikipedia
no credits at Internet Movie Database

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The Brockman Literary Agency, Inc. [est. 1973] 260 Fifth Avenue, New York City 10001 placeholder website [est. 1996]

Major  Works
browse books at the John Brockman Store {returns 70+ items} at Amazon

"By The Late John Brockman" [1969, rev 2014] by John Brockman A radical, experimental work that challenges the boundaries of poetry, philosophy, and science; the new and expanded Kindle Edition also includes a new foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist and the full text of "37" [1970] and of "Afterwords" [1973] Kindle Edition from HarperPerennial/HarperCollins [rev 9/2014] for $4.99 Macmillan hardcover [1969] out of print/used

"37" book [1970] by John Brockman
http://www.amazon.com/37-John-Brockman-dp-B000NZ61BO/dp/B000NZ61BO/
http://www.amazon.com/37-John-Brockman-dp-0030850525/dp/0030850525/

"Afterwords: Explorations of The Mystical Limits of Contemporary Reality" [1973] by John Brockman
http://www.amazon.com/Afterwords-John-Brockman/dp/0385015542/
http://www.amazon.com/Nachworte-Gedanken-Wegbereiters-Dritten-Kultur-ebook/dp/B072MSSRB5/
http://www.amazon.com/Nachworte/dp/3596031192/

"Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein & Frankenstein: Re-inventing The Universe" [1986] by John Brockman Viking Adult hardcover [4/86] out of print/many used

"The Third Culture: Beyond The Scientific Revolution" [1995] by John Brockman Touchstone 8½x5½ pb [5/96] for $25.51 Simon & Schuster 9¾x6¾ hardcover [5/1995] for $20.48 An expansion of the 1991 essay "The Emerging Third Culture"; referencing C.P. Snow's 'two cultures', the book introduces the Third Culture consisting of 'those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are", and weaves together the ideas of some of today's most influential scientific figures, including: Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Niles Eldredge, Murray Gell-Mann, Brian Goodwin, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Jones, Stuart Kauffman, Lynn Margulis, Marvin Minsky, Roger Penrose, Steven Pinker, and George C. Williams

"Digerati: Encounters With The Cyber Elite" [1996] by John Brockman TEXERE Publng 8½x6 pb [3/98] out of print/used Hardwired 9½x6½ hardcover [10/96] out of print/used online etext available free at Edge.org website conversations with 33 of the most important architects and developers of today's cyberspace as recorded by John Brockman from August 1995 thru April 1996: Stewart Alsop, John Perry Barlow, Stewart Brand, David Bunnell, Doug Carlston, Denise Caruso, Steve Case, John C. Dvorak, Esther Dyson, Bill Gates, David Gelernter, Mike Godwin, W. Daniel Hillis, David R. Johnson, Brewster Kahle, Kevin Kelly, Jaron Lanier, Ted Leonsis, John Markoff, John McCrea, Scott McNealy, Jane Metcalfe, Kip Parent, Howard Rheingold, Louis Rossetto, Paul Saffo, Bob Stein, Cliff Stoll, Linda Stone, Lew Tucker, Sherry Turkle, Dave Winer, Richard Saul Wurman

Other  Works
most of the books in this section are edited by John Brockman and are topical anthologies of essays from 'The Edge'

"The New Humanists: Science at the Edge" [8/2003] Edited by John Brockman

"Curious Minds" [8/2004] Edited by John Brockman

	"The Greatest Inventions of The Past 2,000 Years" [2000] Edited by John Brockman, Afterword by Jared Diamond contributors include neuroscientist Colin Blakemore (the birth-control pill), Stewart Brand, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, biologist Richard Dawkins (spectroscope), Daniel Dennett, Jared Diamond, physicist Freeman Dyson (hay), Howard Gardner, Murray Gell-Mann, Leon Lederman, editor John Maddox (the calculus), Steven Pinker, Sherry Turkel Orion Publng 7¾x5 pb [2/2001] out of print/used Simon & Schuster 8¼x5½ hardcover [1/2000] for $10.02
	"Intelligent Thought: Science versus The Intelligent Design Movement" [2006] Edited by John Brockman sixteen essays by contributors that include: Scott Atran, Jerry A. Coyne, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Marc D. Hauser, Nicholas Humphrey, Stuart A. Kauffman, Seth Lloyd, psychologist Steven Pinker, Lisa Randall, geologist Scott D. Sampson, Neil H. Shubin, Lee Smolin, Frank J. Sulloway, Leonard Susskind, and paleontologist Tim D. White Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [12/2007] for $11.99 Vintage Books 8x5¼ pb [5/2006] for $14.36
	"My Einstein: Essays By Twenty-Four of The World's Leading Thinkers On The Man, His Work, and His Legacy" [2006] Edited by John Brockman twenty-four essays by contributors that include: Roger Highfield, Leon M. Lederman, Gino C. Segrè, Lee Smolin, Frank J. Tipler, John Archibald Wheeler, and Anton Zeilinger Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [2006 edition] for $4.99 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [8/2007] for $16.00 Pantheon 7¾x5¼ hardcover [7/2006] for $6.00
	"What Is Your Dangerous Idea?" [2006] Edited by John Brockman, Introduction by Steven Pinker; Afterword by Richard Dawkins The follow-up to 'What We Believe But Cannot Prove' is a collection of thought-experiments by eminent thinkers and scientists including Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Jared Diamond, Freeman Dyson, Howard Gardner, Brian Greene, Steven Pinker, and Matt Ridley Kindle Edition from HarperCollins e-books [10/2009] for $10.99 Pocket Books UK 7¾x5 pb [7/2007] for $9.00 Simon & Schuster 7¾x5 hardcover [2006] out of print/used
	"Is The Internet Changing The Way You Think?: The Net's Impact On Our Minds and Future" [2011] Edited by John Brockman contributors include: Nicholas Carr, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Jaron Lanier, Steven Pinker, Clay Shirky, Nassim N. Taleb, Frank Wilczek Kindle Edition from HarperCollins e-books [1/2011] for $3.99 HarperPerennial 8x5½ pb [1/2011] for $12.18 HarperPerennial 8x5½ pb [1/2011] for $12.15
	"Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Civilizations, Art, Networks, Reputation, and The Online Revolution" [2011] Edited by John Brockman contributors include: Stewart Brand, Nicholas Christakis, Jared Diamond, Daniel C. Dennett, Denis Dutton, Brian Eno, W. Daniel Hillis, Jaron Lanier, Evgeny Morozov, Douglas Rushkoff, Clay Shirky Kindle Edition from HarperPerennial/HarperCollins [8/2011] for $7.99 HarperPerennial 8x5¼ pb [8/2011] for $12.56
	"Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction" [2013] Edited by John Brockman contributors include: Simon Baron-Cohen, Roy Baumeister, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Daniel C. Dennett, Gerd Gigerenzer, Daniel Gilbert, Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, Daniel Kahneman, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Nassim Nicholas Taleb Kindle Edition from HarperPerennial [10/2013] for $9.99 HarperPerennial 8x5¼ pb [10/2013] for $16.19 HarperPerennial pb [10/2013] for $14.00

"What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up At Night" [2014] Edited by John Brockman, publisher at Edge.org [est. 1996] 150 ideas from contributors that include Scott Atran, Susan Blackmore, Nicholas Carr, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Daniel C. Dennett, Esther Dyson, George Dyson, Brian Eno, Helen Fisher, Howard Gardner, Terry Gilliam, Daniel Goleman, Alison Gopnik, Sam Harris, Virginia Heffernan, Arianna Huffington, Jennifer Jacquet, Kate Jeffery, Kevin Kelly, Lawrence Krauss, Seth Lloyd, Tim O'Reilly, Steven Pinker, Lisa Randall, Martin Rees, Matt Ridley, Douglas Rushkoff, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Sherry Turkle, J. Craig Venter, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek — and more Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Publrs [2/2014] for $8.99 Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [2/2014] for $12.96

"This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know" [2018] Edited by John Brockman over 200 articles selected from The Edge written by authors that include Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Helen Fisher, Alison Gopnik, Lawrence Krauss, Ian McEwan, Steven Pinker, Lisa Randall, Carlo Rovelli, Richard Thaler, and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek Kindle Edition from HarperPerennial/HarperCollins [1/2018] for $12.99 HarperPerennial 8x5¼ pb [1/2018] for $12.78

Stageplays,  Movies,  Other  Media
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Works  About  John Brockman

"After Brockman: A Symposium (Abyss volume 4, numbers 1-3)" [1974] "There are certain writers whose thought is so important that it doesn't matter whether you agree with them or not." • Nineteen statements on John Brockman's work printed over three issues of Abyss Magazine [est. 1971]; contributors include Jay Bail, Jeff Berner, Magda Cordell, Richard Kostelanetz, John C. Lilly, Bern Porter, others 69-page Abyss Publns 7½c5¼ pb [1974] long out of print/scarce

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