Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The story follows a genetically enhanced pop singer and television star who wakes up in a world where he has never existed. The novel is set in a futuristic dystopia, where the United States has become a police state in the aftermath of a Second Civil War. It was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1974 and a Hugo Award in 1975, and was awarded the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1975. TV star Jason Taverner is no more. Overnight, he looses his ID cards, the records about him in the official databases have strangely vanished and no one seems to know him any more. Even the songs he recorded don’t exist any more. In an oppressing police state, Jason struggels not to get arrested.
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A celebrity singer with thirty million viewers wakes in a shabby hotel room. Nobody has heard of him. The police state outside is closing in, and a tearful officer keeps showing up to ask the wrong questions.
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said was written by Philip K. Dick and published in 1974. It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and is widely considered one of his major novels alongside The Man in the High Castle and Ubik.
The title comes from a 1600 song by John Dowland, an English Renaissance composer. Philip K. Dick weaves the song into the novel's plot about identity, surveillance, and reality.
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is 231 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said takes most readers 3 to 5 hours to finish.
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
