Anthology: Minority Report

June 26, 2002 9:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

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Philip K. Dick has got to be one of the BEST sci-fi authors ever. Minority Report is a collection of short stories, including the title piece (which is also a new Steven Spielberg flick starring Tom Cruise). I picked it up at WaldenBooks at the mall while stumbling around, half-blind... I've only read the first few stories, but I really enjoyed it.

PKD (as a good friend of mine refers to him) was great. He's written many books that you've probably never heard of, but you've probably seen a movie adaptation of. The most well known is "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," which you might recall better as the sci-fi epic "Blade Runner," starring Harrison Ford. Or maybe the short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," which I believe was the basis for "Freejack," starring Emilio Estevez and Mick Jagger. Peter Weller was in "Screamers," which was based on a great short-story called "Second Variety."

I've always liked Clans of the Alphane Moon, Valis, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and Radio Free Albemuth.