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A review by paulataua
Minority Report and Other Stories by Philip K. Dick
4.0
I really have a tough time reading Philip K Dick’s full length novels and even some of his short stories don’t flow very well even if the ideas in them are just so awesome. For this reason, I chose the audiobook version and I wasn’t disappointed. This is a really good collection including ‘The Minority Report’, ‘We Can Remember It for You Wholesale’, ‘Paycheck’, and ‘Second Variety’. I really think it is important to keep going back to the original stories and not be seduced by the movies they gave birth to. Comparing Spielberg’s “The Minority Report” to the original short story, we can see how the director smoothed out all the rough edges, but also took out the most important philosophical center of it. It is that philosophical dilemma that the short story is about, and is why the ending of the short story is very different from that of the movie and, for me, much more satisfying.