''The Minority Report'' is a re-titled collection of

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...

stories by Philip K. Dick. It was published by Gollancz and Citadel Twilight in 1991, being a reprint of Volume IV, "The Days of Perky Pat" of ''

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick ''The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick'' is a collection of 118 science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Underwood-Miller in 1987 as a five volume set. See Philip K. Dick bibliography for informati ...

'' (1987). The collection ''

The Days of Perky Pat "The Days of Perky Pat" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1963 in ''Amazing'' magazine. Plot In this novel, survivors of a global thermonuclear war live in isolated enclaves in California, ...

'' was published in Britain in hardback by Gollancz in 1990 and in paperback by Grafton in 1991. The stories had originally appeared in the magazines ''

Galaxy Science Fiction ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published in Boston from 1950 to 1980. It was founded by a French-Italian company, World Editions, which was looking to break into the American market. World Editi ...

'', ''Science Fiction Stories'', '' If'', ''

Fantastic Universe ''Fantastic Universe'' was a U.S. science fiction magazine which began publishing in the 1950s. It ran for 69 issues, from June 1953 to March 1960, under two different publishers. It was part of the explosion of science fiction magazine publishin ...

'', ''

Fantasy and Science Fiction ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher ...

'', ''

Fantastic The fantastic (french: le fantastique) is a subgenre of literary works characterized by the ambiguous presentation of seemingly supernatural forces. Bulgarian-French structuralist literary critic Tzvetan Todorov originated the concept, charac ...

'', ''Worlds of Tomorrow'', ''Escapade'' and ''

Amazing Stories ''Amazing Stories'' is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Science fiction stories had made regular appearances ...

''.

* How Do You Know You’re Reading Philip K. Dick?, by

James Tiptree, Jr Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. It was not publicly known un ...

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Autofac "Autofac" is a 1955 science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick that features one of the earliest treatments of self-replicating machines (and Dick's second, after his 1953 short story ''Second Variety''). It appeared originally ...

" * " Service Call" * "

Captive Market Captive markets are markets where the potential consumers face a severely limited number of competitive suppliers; their only choices are to purchase what is available or to make no purchase at all. The term therefore applies to any market where ...

" * " The Mold of Yancy" * "

The Minority Report "The Minority Report" is a 1956 science fiction novella by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in ''Fantastic Universe''. In a future society, three mutants foresee all crime before it occurs. Plugged into a great machine, these " p ...

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Recall Mechanism "Recall Mechanism" is a science fiction short story by American author Philip K. Dick, first published in 1959 and later in ''The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. IV, The Days of Perky Pat'' (1987). Synopsis The story is written in a pos ...

" * " The Unreconstructed M" * " Explorers We" * " War Game" * "

If There Were No Benny Cemoli "If There Were No Benny Cemoli" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in the December, 1963 issue of '' Galaxy'' magazine with illustration by Lutjens.Levack, Daniel (1981). ''PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bib ...

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Novelty Act "Novelty Act" is a short story by Philip K. Dick. It involves a dystopian future in which the characters' lives are based on entertaining the First Lady of the United States with "novelty acts." Many of the ideas developed in the story were r ...

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Waterspider "Waterspider" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in the January 1964 edition of ''If'' magazine. Dick's story "Waterspider" features Poul Anderson as one of the main characters. The author refers t ...

" * " What the Dead Men Say" * "

Orpheus with Clay Feet "Orpheus with Clay Feet" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, originally published in 1964 in '' Escapade'' magazine. The story has a self referential time travel theme, and was published under the pen name "Jack Dow ...

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What'll We Do with Ragland Park? "What'll We Do With Ragland Park?" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in ''Amazing Stories ''Amazing Stories'' is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Ge ...

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Oh, to Be a Blobel! Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer. He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his l ...

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