Thanks to John Anderton's development of the Precrime division, violent crime has been almost completely eradicated. A team of three precognitives sits hooked up to machines all day, with their visions analyzed and translated into reports of upcoming crimes, so that the would-be perpetrators can be arrested before they have a chance to kill. Anderton is showing his new assistant around the Precrime division when he picks up a new batch of cards--and is shocked to find his name at the top. Convinced it's part of a conspiracy to get him out of the way and allow his new assistant to take over, Anderton flees, but it's not enough for him to escape: he needs to find out why he's accused of killing a man he's never met. The answer may lie in the safeguard to the precog system: names on the cards are generated when two of the three precogs reach the same conclusion. The answer to Anderton's eventual crime, however, hides in the spaces between the predictions. If Anderton is to prove his innocence, he has to prove the existence of the Minority Report. 
 Not much on the outside governmental structure here, but still dystopian in its embrace of precrime and the willingness to imprison people based on what they might do. The idea that Anderton could avoid his future actions simply by knowing about them has both real and metaphysical implications for other would-be criminals who are imprisoned for not-yet-committed wrongdoings, and while the novella is too short to really explore these ideas fully, it's an excellent starting point for philosophical discussion. 
 Mostly an adult book, though it has definite appeal for upper-high-school students, particularly those who enjoy a smarter, more thought-based science fiction. 
 As an aside, this edition is a pain in the ass to read, as the pages are printed vertically (like normal) but the whole book is bound at the top--so rather than opening to roughly 10" wide by 7" tall, it's 5" wide and 14" tall, and you're reading in one long, skinny column until you have to turn the page upward. Who thought this was a good idea, or a practical design?