The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick #4
The Minority Report
The stories of Philip K. Dick have been made into some of the most memorable science fiction movies ever. Next year his classic short story "The Minority Report" will become a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise. The story takes place in a future world where scientists are able to predict criminal behavior before it happens... and so "pre-criminals" are arrested before they can actually break any laws. This volume features the title story. Other notable tales are "Service Call, " "If There Were No Benny Cemoli, " and "The Days of Perky Pat." Also included are notes by Philip K. Dick and an introduction by James Tiptree Jr.
Volume 4/5 contains:
- Autofac (1955)
- Service Call (1955)
- Captive Market (1955)
- The Mold of Yancy (1955)
- The Minority Report (1956)
- Recall Mechanism (1959)
- The Unreconstructed M (1957)
- Explorers We (1959)
- War Game (1959)
- If There Were No Benny Cemoli (1963)
- Novelty Act (1964)
- Waterspider (1964)
- What the Dead Men Say (1964)
- Orpheus with Clay Feet (1987)
- The Days of Perky Pat (1963)
- Stand-By (1963)
- What'll We Do with Ragland Park? (1963)
- Oh, to Be a Blobel! (1964)
Other editions of this volume have the same stories, and were published under these titles:
- The Days of Perky Pat,
- The Minority Report,
- The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories.
396 pages, Paperback
First published May 1,1987
This edition
- Format
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396 pages, Paperback
- Published
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January 1, 2000 by Citadel Pr
- ISBN
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9780806521688
- ASIN
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0806521686
- Language
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English
About the author
In addition to 44 published novels, Dick wrote approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. Although Dick spent most of his career as a writer in near-poverty, ten of his stories have been adapted into popular films since his death, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report, Paycheck, Next, Screamers, and The Adjustment Bureau. In 2005, Time magazine named Ubik one of the one hundred greatest English-language novels published since 1923. In 2007, Dick became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.
