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Synopsis. In a near-future version of the United States, John Allison Anderton is the aging creator and head police commissioner of the Precrime Division, in which three mutant humans called "precogs" predict all crimes before they occur.
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“The Minority Report,” a short story by science fiction author Philip K. Dick, follows the story of Precrime Commissioner John A. Anderton as he decides whether or not he will commit the murder of a stranger, Leopold Kaplan, of which he has been accused approximately one week in advance of the event.
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Philip K. Dick. In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of crime. He is the originator of the Precrime System, which uses precogs—people with the power to see into the future—to identify criminals before they can do any harm.
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May 1, 1987 · Finally, the classic title story, filmed by Steven Spielberg as Minority Report, posits a future state in which the “Precrime” bureau, aided by a trio of pre-cognitive mutants, arrests and incarcerates “criminals” for crimes they have not yet committed.
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Introduction. Welcome to the futuristic world of “The Minority Report”! Written by the legendary Philip K. Dick, this novella transports us into a society where crime can be prevented before it even happens, thanks to the “Precogs”—three psychic beings capable of seeing the future.
At almost 17,000 words "The Minority Report" can be considered a novelette rather than a short story. It was first published in Fantastic Universe in Jan 1956. The story was selected for PKD’s first USA collection THE VARIABLE MAN in 1957.
