Minority Report
"Minority Report" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick first published in 1956. Some say it's a modification of 1984 by George Orwell. It is about a future society where murders are prevented before they happen through the efforts of "Precogs", 3 extraordinarily advanced individuals who can see the future.
The story looks at the paradoxes and alternate realities that are created by their precognition when the chief of police intercepts a prediction that he is about to murder a man he has never heard of.
This story, like many time travel movies continue to beg the question, "Do we have free will?"
Text of "Minority Report"
- Philip K. Dick: Minority Report (Gollancz: London, 2002) (ISBN 1857987381 or ISBN 0575074787) (contains nine short stories by Dick, including most of those that were adapted into movies.) (Also released in audio book form [ISBN 0060095261] containing only five stories, read by Keir Dullea.)
Other media
A movie, Minority Report (2002), was very loosely adapted from the initial storyline of this short story.
A video game based on the movie was published in 2002 by Activision on the Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance, and Sony PlayStation 2 platforms.
External links
- The Minority Report and Other Stories - Philip K. Dick (http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/alternative_writing/94069) (review of the short story collection audio book)
"Minority Report" is also the title of a science fiction short story by Theodore Sturgeon.
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