Minority Report - Definition and Overview

For other uses, see Minority Report (disambiguation).

"Minority Report" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick first published in 1956. 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?"

Other media

A movie, Minority Report (2002), starring Tom Cruise 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: see Minority Report (video game).

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.)

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)