The Adjustment Bureau is a major motion picture based on Philip K. Dick's classic paranoid story, "The Adjustment Team." This is the short story, "The Adjustment Team," which asks the question-Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us?
Ed Fletcher is a real estate agent with a normal life, until one day he leaves the house for work a few minutes later than he should have. He arrives at a terrifying, grey, ash world. Ed rushes home and tells his wife, Ruth, who goes back to the office with him. When they return, everything is normal. But he soon realizes people and objects have subtly changed. Panic-stricken, he runs to a public phone to warn the police, only to have the phone booth ascend heavenward with Fletcher inside....
The Adjustment Bureau is a major motion picture based on Philip K. Dick's classic paranoid story, "The Adjustment Team." This is the short story, "The Adjustment Team," which asks the question-Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us?
Ed Fletcher is a real estate agent with a normal life, until one day he leaves the house for work a few minutes later than he should have. He arrives at a terrifying, grey, ash world. Ed rushes home and tells his wife, Ruth, who goes back to the office with him. When they return, everything is normal. But he soon realizes people and objects have subtly changed. Panic-stricken, he runs to a public phone to warn the police, only to have the phone booth ascend heavenward with Fletcher inside....
| BN ID: | 2940169933277 |
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| Publisher: | Brilliance Audio |
| Publication date: | 03/04/2011 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
Creative types have been mining material from the sciences for years. Hollywood loves the imaginative leaps of science fiction (it’s been churning out Philip K. Dick adaptations for decades), and sometimes it even gets the science right. And these days, science is borrowing back from the arts. Harvard physicist Lisa Randall took the title for her latest […]
