Adjustment Team, Philip K. Dick
Adjustment Team, Philip K. Dick
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Adjustment Team

Author: Philip K. Dick

Narrator: Shaun Acker

Unabridged: 1 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/24/2026


Synopsis

What if a single missed minute altered the entire trajectory of your life?

When real estate salesman Ed Fletcher arrives at his office a few minutes late, he steps into a nightmare. The familiar world has turned ash-grey—buildings, furniture, and people are entirely frozen, mid-transformation, dissolving into fine powder as unseen force fields alter reality itself.

Ed has stumbled across the terrifying inner machinery of the universe: the Adjustment Team. Guided by an enigmatic Overseer, these shadowy manipulators alter subtle details of everyday life to keep human history on its intended track. But Ed was never meant to see behind the curtain.

Now, hunted by relentless agents who can rewrite reality with a word, Ed must run for his life alongside Ruth, the only person who might anchor him to true reality. Caught in a high-stakes, time-bending game of cat and mouse through a collapsing city, Ed has to ask himself: how far will he go to keep his own fate in his hands?

First published in 1954 and the inspiration for the hit feature film The Adjustment Bureau, Philip K. Dick’s gripping sci-fi thriller explores paranoia, free will, and the delicate illusion of the world we take for granted.

Masterfully narrated by Shaun Acker, this fast-paced, immersive audio production brings Dick's iconic temporal paradox to life in vivid, edge-of-your-seat detail.

About Philip K. Dick

Over a writing career that spanned three decades, PHILIP K. DICK (1928–1982) published 36 science fiction novels and 121 short stories in which he explored the essence of what makes man human and the dangers of centralized power. Toward the end of his life, his work turned to deeply personal, metaphysical questions concerning the nature of God. Eleven novels and short stories have been adapted to film, notably Blade Runner (based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly, as well as television's The Man in the High Castle. The recipient of critical acclaim and numerous awards throughout his career, including the Hugo and John W. Campbell awards, Dick was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2005, and between 2007 and 2009, the Library of America published a selection of his novels in three volumes. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

“Adjustment Team”, first published in Orbit Science Fiction (Sept.-Oct. 1954), is perhaps my favorite Dick short story of all. (I vacillate between “Adjustment Team” and “The Father Thing.”) At any rate, it certainly has the Dickian quality I love most: the ability to permanently alter the way you p......more

Philip K. Dick's 1954 short story Adjustment Team is a compelling conversation about the concept of reality, free will, and the exterior influences shaping our existence. Turned into the middling, but entertaining 2011 film "The Adjustment Bureau" (starring Matt Damon & Emily Blunt, directed by Georg......more

Goodreads review by Mónica

Primer relato corto que leo de K. Dick. Me gusto mucho la premisa, sobre todo teniendo en cuenta que se escribió en los años 50, precediendo a películas tan icónicas hoy como Matrix o Desafío Total. Pero me hubiera gustado que se extendiera más en el relato, que me explicará mejor las cosas.......more