Publisher's Synopsis
"Adjustment Team" served as the basis for the 2011 film The Adjustment Bureau starring Matt Damon. In the story mundane existence is completely a product of unseen manipulators. Philip Dick wrote science fiction stories that were often of a dystopian nature. Those works tend to be dominated by strong central governments with strict authoritarian control and monopolistic corporations. This story is a perfect example of Dick's dystopian writing. Dystopian Classic Editions publishes works of dystopian and utopian literature that have survived through the generations and been recognized as classics. A dystopian society is an imagined society in which the people are oppressed, however the government propagandizes the society as being a utopia or a perfect society. Typical themes in dystopian literature include public mistrust, police states, and overall unpleasantness for the citizens. Authors of dystopian works strive to present a worst-case scenario and negative depiction of the way things are in the story so as to make a criticism about a current situation in society and to call for a change. Each Dystopian Classic Edition selected for publication presents such a story.
