Cover for The Minority Report
Short Story

The Minority Report

1956

About this story

The head of a police agency that arrests people before they commit crimes is himself predicted to commit a murder. His fight to avoid that future exposes conflicts within the system on which his career depends.

Chronology

Work history

  1. no later than Dec 22, 1954

    Composition: no later than Dec 22, 1954

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Dec 22, 1954

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Dec 22, 1954

  3. Jan 1956

    First published Jan 1956

    Fantastic Universe SF