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Many of Philip K. Dick 's stories were made into films, including "Blade Runner", which was based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? "And" Total Recall "was based on the short story" We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. "Steven Spielberg's 2002 adaptation of "The Minority Report" starring Tom Cruise, was based on the short story written in 1956.

It was my experience that the book is usually better than if the film after seeing the movie, I decided to read the original story that unfolds in a future where mutant creatures with the help of a force capacity prescient pre-criminal police to arrest criminals for crimes they have committed in the future.

They are then sent into exile or detention camps. Murder has been virtually eliminated. Of course, criminals complain that they have done nothing but what is painted on the ground that they probably deserve. When Anderton, the first policeman, is accused of murder he thinks there has been an error or has been established. He begins to wonder if there is something wrong to punish people for things they have not yet done. If he can not discover who introduced it will fall victim to the system he helped create.

Some story elements were changed. For example, the three Pre-Cogs in the film are portrayed But peacefully in the story they were drugged and they are forced to use their psychic abilities. But Spielberg kept the theme basic history and makes a sci-fi adventure thrilling. This is a great film, the technical aspects are well done, special effects are non-permanent and the game is superb.

But I definitely recommend reading the original story for Dick vision that was ahead of its time and surprisingly up to date despite years of being over fifty years. The edition that I chose – the minority REPORT AND OTHER CLASSIC STORIES – contains stories eighteen in total. This is not a best of collection is actually the fourth volume of his collected short stories and covers the period between 1954 and 1964, but it is a good representation and a must for serious collectors.

His work is imaginative, surreal and often downright odd. Dick talks about people rather than technology and science. His characters seem like ordinary people, but strange things happen to them. The plots take complex twists and sometimes they look like episodes of the Twilight Zone.

His worlds are often dystopian future societies characterized by poverty, oppression and hopelessness, where people lead dehumanized life. Yet he often incorporates humor in his stories. Many of them involve precognition and themes of false reality. Others deal with the fine line between man and machine and ask – What is humanity?

This is a great edition for enthusiasts, collectors and lovers stories shorter than novels. If you do not know Philip K. Dick of the movies based on his work that you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy.

A brief summary each story follows.

AUTOFAC takes place in an apocalyptic world where robots (autofacs) work for the human survivors. But when humanity discover they can not close the robots are forced to steal supplies for living.

Call service is a time travel story. A service man of the future visits the past to try to stop an invention that controls people's minds.

In captivity MARKET a woman crossing the time to sell his property to a colony of men building a ship to leave an Earth radiation. When customers tell her they you leave and will not need more goods it is trying to prevent them from leaving.

In the mold of Yancy a totalitarian society is the brain being washed by the messages conveyed by John Yancy, a composite man does not really exist.

In the minority report three Precog clairvoyant see alternative realities in the future and the system uses Precrime reports to arrest people before they commit a crime. Commissioner Police see a prediction that he will kill someone and he tries to find the minority report which will change the future.

As a reminder MECHANISM man has a fear of heights and falling. He goes to a doctor who takes him through the repressed memories.

THE M retrograde is an interesting story on a machine that can not leave false clues and forensic image of someone.

In six astronauts EXPLORERS WE who died during a mission to land on Earth in March. Humans think they are clones or aliens in disguise and must be killed.

In war game of a toy is created that will seep into the minds of children.

IF IT WAS NOT CEMOLI BENNY is a story based on the idea that what is in the New York Times is real.

THE NEW ACT is a dystopian future governed by a woman who is married and the mother of the nation.
In WATERSPIDER many famous names are deleted when time travelers Poul Anderson to return because they need his help.

In WHAT THE DEAD MEN that there is a short period of time when the dead can be revived. Louis Serapis can not be reduced, but his voice seems to come from space.

Orpheus with FEET OF CLAY is Jesse Slade about living in 2040 and returns to 1956 to inspire the writing of his favorite sci fi. It reveals that there is a time traveler and writer becomes cynical and does never develop its full potential.

IN THE DAYS OF PAT Perky survivors of nuclear war are obsessed with a doll and role play escape game.

STAND-BY and WHAT we make Ragland Park? are both on the media in the future.

OH, AS A BLOBEL is on humans – Blobel war. Espionage agents of the two sides undergo physical changes and take the shape of the opposing species.

Publisher: Citadel (May 2002)
Paperback: 380 pages
ISBN: 978-0806523798
Price: $ 14.95

Gail Pruszkowski reviews for “Romantic Times BOOKreviews” magazine and her work has been published in the “Cup of Comfort” Anthologies.

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