Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people. He is also a TV star the prime-time idol of millions until, inexplicably, all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth.

Suddenly he's a nobody in a police state where nobody is allowed to be a nobody. Will he ever be rich and famous again? Was he, in fact, ever rich and famous?

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. He wrote more than 50 novels and among his finest are The Man in the High Castle (later adapted for television), Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (on which the film Blade Runner is based) and Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. He also continued publishing short stories throughout his life including We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, which later inspired Total Recall.