Minority Report (Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, #4) (P. K. Dick)

by Philip K. Dick

This volume covers a wide span, from late 1954 through to 1963, the years during which Dick began writing novels prolifically and his short story output lessened. The title story of this collection has been made into the Steven Spielberg-directed movie of the same name, while "The Days of Perky Pat" inspired one of Dick's greatest works, the novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch; The Penultimate Truth grew from "The Mold of Yancy".
Philip K. Dick is shown at his incomparable prime in this fourth volume of the definitive collection of short fiction.

• ISBN10: 0806521686
• ISBN13: 9780806521688
• Publish Date: 1 January 2000
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing
• Imprint: Citadel Press
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 396
• Language: English

Reviews

[empressbrooke]

PKD seems a little more accessible in the short-story format; I adore the guy's books, but they can be difficult reads. I usually have to let my brain unwind with some literary candy fluff after an encounter with him, but this collection didn't have that effect on me at all. A lot of the stories in this collection had a Twilight Zone-ish twist, and unlike most short story collections, the quality of 90% of the included stories was really solid.

[Michael @ Knowledge Lost]

Though the story was different to the movie, I still had the problem were I kept seeing Anderton as Tom Cruise and that didn’t help the enjoyment of this book. But thanks to the mastery writing of Philip K Dick, I did manage to get past this small issue and enjoy the book. Like the movie, the book explores the issues of identity and free will, but to a lesser extent it explores the issue prophecies; if you are told you will do something in the future, do you end up doing it (even if you never had any intentions in doing it).

Philip K Dick is the master of writing fiction that makes you ponder life during and after reading one of his stories. Should you be arrested for a crime you haven’t committed, yet? The Minority Report may not be my favourite Dick book but it stands strong against all his others.