Reviews for The Minority Report: 18 Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick

The average rating for The Minority Report: 18 Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-07-09 00:00:00 Bruce Kirker Sigh, I should just have read the short stories, they are much better than the rest of his work. The huge advantage of these short pieces of fiction is that Dick can´t endlessly drivel about pseudo philosophical topics and getting high and enlightened all the time like in all of his novels and tells real stories instead, making it the best parts of his work. Seriously, I was never really convinced that Dick came just close to the other titans of Sci-Fi and the many unknown, underrated authors nobody talks about today, but this short story collections showed that he could be ingenious, but just if focused on a shorter format. And, well, his mind probably still not so destroyed by drug induced madness and paranoia. I may read the other 3 collections over the coming years, because it´s still Dick and no real pleasure to read as it´s more a collection of weird, eccentric writing experiments than normal literature, I will need breaks between. And think about the importance of not to do hard drugs and lurk on how it influenced his muse. I´ve read very much Sci-Fi, which leads me to the conclusion that there are the two groups of the maybe and definitively ingenious Sci-Fi authors. The definitive ones are Lem, Clarke, Capek, Verne, Asimov, some unknown classic and new authors and the maybes are Heinlein, Dick, and some classics. It´s interesting that they are similar controversial as beat poets like Kerouac and all this kind of arty, experimental, pop psychology, fringe philosophy, or over the top literature stuff. Or, maybe the best example, try to find someone who has a substantial problem she/he can point the finger at in the case of the real prodigy authors close to everyone enjoys. This is often accompanied by the feeling that it must be impossible for normal authors to write such literature, an impression many of the overhyped authors can´t awake. Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:

Review # 2 was written on 2014-02-23 00:00:00 Mark Singer Limited: 250 numbered copies, bound in leather Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover copies This collection contains 18 stories and novellas written between 1954 and 1963, The Minority Report is the fourth installment of a uniform, five-volume edition of The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. This generous collection contains 18 stories and novellas written between 1954 and 1963, years in which Dick produced some of his most memorable work, including such novels as Martian Time Slip and the Hugo Award-winning The Man in the High Castle. Included here are "Autofac," a post-apocalyptic tale in which humans share the devastated Earth with the machines they have created but no longer fully control; "The Mold of Yancy," a portrait of a world reduced to bland conformity by the vapid'and ubiquitous -- pronouncements of a virtual demagogue; and "The Days of Perky Pat," another post-apocalypse story in which Earth's survivors find temporary solace in the Perky Pat game, a game rooted in the images and memories of a world that no longer exists. Finally, the classic title story, filmed by Steven Spielberg as Minority Report, posits a future state in which the "Precrime" bureau, aided by a trio of pre-cognitive mutants, arrests and incarcerates "criminals" for crimes they have not yet committed. Like its predecessors, this extraordinary volume is a treasure house of story, offering narrative pleasures and intellectual excitement in equal measure. Table of Contents: "Autofac" "Service Call" "Captive Market" "The Mold of Yancy" "The Minority Report" "Recall Mechanism" "The Unreconstructed M" "Explorers We" "War Game" "If There Were No Benny Cemoli" "Novelty Act" "Waterspider" "What the Dead Men Say" "Orpheus with Clay Feet" "The Days of Perky Pat" "Stand-By" "What'll We Do with Ragland Park?" "Oh, to be a Blobel!" Dust jacket by Bill Sienkewicz.