Philip K. Dick
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| Original Title: | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said |
| ISBN: | 1857983416 (ISBN13: 9781857983418) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Jason Taverner, Felix Buckman, Alys Buckman |
| Setting: | United States of America,1988 |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee (1975), Nebula Award Nominee (1974), Locus Award Nominee for Best Novel (1975), John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1975) |
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Jason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been the top-rated television star with millions of devoted watchers. The next day he was just an unidentified walking object, whose face nobody recognised, of whom no one had heard, and without the I.D. papers required in that near future. When he finally found a man who would agree to counterfeiting such cards for him, that man turned out to be a police informer. And then Taverner found out not only what it was like to be a nobody but also to be hunted by the whole apparatus of society. It was obvious that in some way Taverner had become the pea in in some sort of cosmic shell game - but how? And why? Philip K. Dick takes the reader on a walking tour of solipsism's scariest margin in his latest novel about the age we are already half into.Specify Epithetical Books Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
| Title | : | Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said |
| Author | : | Philip K. Dick |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 204 pages |
| Published | : | November 8th 2001 by Gollancz (first published February 1974) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Dystopia. Science Fiction Fantasy. Novels. Fantasy. Literature. American |
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In a time and place where the pols (US Police) and nats (national guard) carry out random ID checks to catch escaped students and send them to forced labour camps, what would happen if you woke up one day with no identity? Jason Taverner, host of a hit TV show with thirty thousand weekly viewers, find's himself in exactly this position. Not only have his ID cards disappeared, but his whole identity. One day a worldwide celebrity, the next a nobody, someone who no one has ever heard of before.Love isn't just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That's just desire. You want to have it around, take it home and set it up somewhere in the apartment like a lamp. Love is"--she paused, reflecting--"like a father saving his children from a burning house, getting them out and dying himself. When you love you cease to live for yourself; you live for another person. What? This in a Philip K. Dick novel? This is an unusual PKD book, though you could argue
This is one of Philip K. Dick's most "literary" novels, which is to say that it reads as if he took some time to edit and think about the plotline, rather than just getting cranked up on speed and hurling out the words as fast as they would come. Decades of that style of writing had already taken their toll on the paranoid genius, however, and anyone hoping for the lyric poetry of a Samuel R. Delany will be disappointed. One does not read Dick for the subtle crafting of the English language,
"So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power."- Philip K. Dick, "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later"It's going to take a while to process this one. PKD's novels often strike an existential chord and FMTTPS is no exception. Amoral TV personality Jason Taverner is attacked
This is a mysterious book that raises many more questions than it answers. Among the questions this book has inspired me to ask:-How on earth could I have spent a year and a half in love with a woman who told me this was her favorite novel?-Is there a time/space-altering drug that can transport me to a universe where I never wasted my time on this book?-Am I honestly supposed to believe that a world in which not everyone cares about the existence of a pompous white dude is some kind of dystopia?
It has been two months since I last finished a novel. Two months chasing images, reading about Godard and Kurosawa. This marks my entry into PKD. I see Alphaville and Dodeska-den as being supplemental texts. Ostensibly Flow My Tears is about celebrity and drugs. Neither is explored in a vacuum but rather as symbols of liberty in a repressive system. David mentioned that Dhalgren despite its flaws had not left his memory months after reading it. Delanys rumination certainly bubbles in this
This is one of Philip K. Dick's most "literary" novels, which is to say that it reads as if he took some time to edit and think about the plotline, rather than just getting cranked up on speed and hurling out the words as fast as they would come. Decades of that style of writing had already taken their toll on the paranoid genius, however, and anyone hoping for the lyric poetry of a Samuel R. Delany will be disappointed. One does not read Dick for the subtle crafting of the English language,
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