... Although intrigued by the concept, I never did get to see Minority Report. What I did not know at the time (to my eternal shame) is that the film was based on a story by Philip K Dick.
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convicted and sentenced for crimes before committing them. This is the scenario of Philip K. Dick's classic story now filmed by Steven Spielberg starring Tom Crui...
convicted and sentenced for crimes before committing them. This is the scenario of Philip K. Dick's classic story. In addition to 'Minority Report' this collectio...
Advantages: Thought-provoking and entertaining Disadvantages: None, unless you can't appreciate the time-shift
...never did get to see Minority Report. What I did not know at the time (to my eternal shame) is that the film was based on a story by Philip K Dick.
For those unfamiliar with the name, Dick was one of the most prolific science fiction writers of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. He gave us Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (better known to film-goers as Blade Runner) as well Total Recall (from one of the stories in this collection 'We Can Remember it for ... ...Seeing the words Minority Report & Dick's name on the same cover, therefore, brought me up short. How come I didn't know he'd written it? And even in checking out the book, indeed well into I still hadn't cottoned on to the fact that this was a short story ~ or at most a novella ~ rather than a full scale epic. Does this mean I felt short-changed? No, I got more than I bargained for.
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...PhilipKDick is probably best known to the world at large for having writen the books that 'Bladerunner', 'Total Recall' and 'Minorityreport' were based on. It would be fair to say that none of these films really do credit to the author's mad, disturbing genius. I will say now that if you like your reality dependable, predictable and to be exactly where you thought you left it, then PhilipKDick is not for you. Equally, if you like indepth explorations of gadgets, lots of shooting monsters and exploring weird planets, go someplace else - it's not that sort of science fiction.
The story. Herb Asher has emigrated to earth. He lives on a distant planet where he spends most of his time listening to a computer designed singer - Linda Fox (you may draw comparisons with our music industry.) Asher lives alone in a dome on a small mountain...
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