I was hoping that this one would be better than the movie based on it, but some of the explanations and hand-waving near the end just got a bit burdensome. I was also somewhat distracted by the unexplained age difference between the police chief and his wife - she was stated as being young and beautiful (I'm guessing in her 20's), but the police chief has been in charge for at least 30 years. ( )

This anthology groups several of Dick's short stories. As the preface indicates, the theme running through the stories is not so much technology as it is the human condition. More specifically, he asks: what is existence? the only thing that we have yet to prove scientifically. Dick explores this playing with memories, the senses, perceptions - anything that we conclude are tangible and yet can easily be manipulated. How easy it is to lose our sense of identity when nothing is what it seems!
Some stories feel repetitive but overall they are ageless, even 60 years after their writing. ( )

http://speculiction.blogspot.com/2020/09/review-of-minority-report-by-philip-k.h... ( )

It's a British edition, and the collection is in different order than other editions:

ix - Introduction (Minority Report) essay by Malcolm Edwards
1 -The Minority Report (1956) novelette
45 - Impostor (1953) short story
61 - Second Variety (1953) novelette
111 - War Game (1959) short story
131 - What the Dead Men Say (1964) novella
191 - Oh, to Be a Blobel! (1964) novelette
211 - The Electric Ant (1969) short story
231 - Faith of Our Fathers (1967) novelette
267 - We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1966) novelette

The last was filmed twice as Total Recall, but the story is still better than either effort. I loved (and still love) "Oh, to be a Blobel!" PKD could write better than any other two or three authors, all added together. ( )

J'ai découvert avec ce livre cet auteur célèbre que je n'avais jamais lu. Il faut commencer par dire que le titre et la couverture du livre sont trompeurs : il ne s'agit pas d'un roman mais d'un recueil de neuf nouvelles dont deux ont donné lieu à des adaptations cinématographiques très connues : Minority Report et la nouvelle We can remember it for your wholesale (film Total Recall).
Les nouvelles m'ont semblé inégales, elles ont une idée de départ intéressante : par exemple, pouvoir changer le futur (Minority Report) ou le passé (We can remember...). Le thème sous-jacents est souvent la paranoïa : le danger est partout autour de nous et rien ne nous permet de distinguer les "bons" des "méchants", et nous mêmes, existons-nous ou ne sommes-nous que des robots, le monde qui nous entoure est-il réel ou une création de nos cerveaux...
L'écriture par contre ne m'a pas vraiment emballé, mais j'ai envie de lire un roman de cet auteur pour voir si je me laisserais entraîner avec plaisir dans une histoire plus étoffée. ( )