The Adjustment Bureau

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.

Brilliance Audio has recently put Philip K. Dick???s short story The Adjustment Team on audio and they sent me a copy. This is the story that the movie The Adjustment Bureau was based on (and the name of the audiobook is The Adjustment Bureau). The story is 57 minutes of tension and psychological terror as Ed Fletcher gets to work late and accidentally sees The Adjustment Team ???adjusting??? his office building and its occupants. Now, unadjusted Ed notices all the differences in his environment but his adjusted colleagues think everything is normal. Is Ed crazy?

Phil Gigante does an excellent job reading this story ??? the drama and terror really comes across well. I enjoyed ???The Adjustment Team,??? I???m glad I???ve finally read the story that the popular movie was based on, and I???m particularly happy to be able to listen to short stories on audio. However??? The audiobook is less than an hour long and it costs (at this writing) $11. As much as I enjoyed it, I just can???t recommend spending that much money for so little story, especially when the Kindle version costs only 99??.

7/10