โ Scribed by Philip K Dick
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Police Commissioner John Anderton finds himself at the mercy of his own crime-prevention system when the prescient precogs he's hired to stop crime before it starts peg him as a soon-to-be murderer in Philip K. Dick's masterful short story The Minority Report. This slim volume is top-bound like an office account and perfectly timedthe movie version, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, is due out this summerbut whether fans will shell out the dough for a single short story that's available in various collections remains to be seen.
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'Minority Report should be on everyone's shelves, and in this edition is wonderfully affordable. Why can't more hardback books cost 6.99?' The Daily Mail
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