Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

Philip K Dick

May 2010 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

Jason Taverner has a glittering TV career, millions of fans, great wealth and something close to eternal youth. He is one of a handful of brilliant, beautiful people, the product of top-secret government experiments forty years earlier. But suddenly, all records of him vanish. He becomes a man with no identity, in a police state where everyone us closely monitored. Can he ever be rich and famous again? Or was that life just an illusion?

Ratings and reviews

Jason uses his eugenically enhanced intellect for tawdry manipulation of millions of TV viewers. His introspection seesm to have limited over decades to honing these skills rather than contemplating their purpose or value. There is a sense of comeuppance to his awakening to a world unchanged except for the absence of his fame. Cast into the police state over he shows no concern or sympathy for its victims. His journey introduces a variety of characters culminating in a fatal meeting and a rather unconvincing explanation of the cause of his trouble. The book then ends with a whimper, not a bang.... The book seems to inhabit a similar world to "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" but has less coherence and characters that eleicit far less sympathy.

This is a great place to start on PK Dick novels. There are many OCR errors though.

didn't like the ending

About the author

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, 'Beyond Lies the Wub' in 1952. Among his many fine novels are THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, TIME OUT OF JOINT, DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? and FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID.