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. ( )

Collections are hard to rate. Some of these stories are definitely 5 stars. Others...are not. ( )

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. ( )