Philip K. Dick - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

		Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said By Philip K. Dick Originally published in 1974 Trade paperback published by Vintage Books in 1993 Currently available through Vintage Books
		Plot Summary: On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonymous with loss of life. Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.

Awards:

1974	John W. Campbell Memorial Award

Reviews

"One of the best of Dick's plots...Dick throws out ideas for the future here there and everywhere that a lesser writer would hoard for other books. Such is the strength of these ideas that it does not matter when we know 30 years on that they didn't happen that way...The book remains one of the best novels by someone with a literally amazing imagination, which is rarer in SF than you might think. " Read more...
Richard Hammersley, Infinity Plus (British Sci-Fi Web Site), July 2002

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