James Brett

James Richard Brett (Col ’62) published the sixth book, Waterhole, in The Few Series, in late 2019. The series is a near-future history centered on what might (have) come to be, given the materials uncovered at UCLA during Brett’s dissertation research on the beginnings of modern western epistemology in Russia. The materials were about third quarter 20th C. parapsychology research in Russia and the U.S. The series’ story begins in a small liberal arts college in southern Virginia where a young psychology professor discovers that telesentience is much more common than Dr. Rhine had shown at Duke many years before. The series builds into AI and now first contact. Brett began writing the series after his retirement in 2003 as director of the Office of University Research (Sponsored Programs) at California State University, Long Beach. He served in that position, in addition to teaching courses in Russian history, after teaching at UCLA and the University of Southern California.