Rating: Three Stars***
Genre: Science Fiction
Summary: Since the Precrime structure was enabled five years ago, the city hasn't seen a murder. The precogs, a team of people that can see into the future to identify criminals before they can do any harm, have named Police Commissioner John Anderton as the next killer. This has all of the city on the man hunt for Andertson. He doesn't want to end up in detention and knows that he does not have the intent to murder, but with the integrity of the system in jeopardy he makes the leap to prove that is it right.
Evaluation: The story is a great introduction to reader's who are new to sci-fi and the writing of Philip K. Dick. The story is better presented in a collective volume of other shorts, but the plot is entertainingly mind bending.
Read-a-likes: Short stories by J.G. Ballard
Other works by Philip K. Dick
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
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