Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick

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"Adjustment Team" is a 1954 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick that explores themes of fate, free will, and hidden powers manipulating reality behind the scenes.

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instanceOf science fiction film
science fiction short story
short story
adaptedAs The Adjustment Bureau
author Philip K. Dick
basedOn Adjustment Team
centralConflict individual will versus preordained plan
containsElement reality alteration
secret organization
supernatural or quasi-divine oversight
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director George Nolfi
exploresConcept cosmic bureaucracy controlling events
limits of human agency
manipulation of human destiny
featuresOrganization Adjustment Team
firstPublishedIn Orbit Science Fiction No. 4
genre science fiction
speculative fiction
hasCharacterType ordinary man caught in cosmic plot
hasInfluenceOn cinematic depictions of fate-controlling agencies
hasLaterPublicationForm short story collection inclusion
hasMoralQuestion Is it right to control human lives for a greater plan?
What is the cost of true free will?
hasPublicationType magazine publication
literaryMovement Golden Age/early post–Golden Age science fiction
medium print
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage English
partOfAuthorOeuvre Philip K. Dick short fiction
periodOfWork 1950s American science fiction
protagonist Ed Fletcher
publicationYear 1954
releaseYear 2011
setting contemporary United States
theme alternate reality
bureaucracy
conspiracy
determinism
fate
free will
hidden powers manipulating reality
tone paranoid
philosophical

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