Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said is a Philip K. Dick novel in which Jason Taverner, who is a Six (a genetically improved superhuman) as well as a singer and television star, lives in a future American police state.

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Philip K. Dick - Television

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He wakes up one day into a world where he is unknown - and without any existence in the records of the State. As an ex-celebrity ex-citizen, he has real problems.

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Taverner's story is intertwined with those of Police General Felix Buckman, and his sister (and lover) Alys Buckman. Alys is a heavy user of reality-changing drugs, and the owner of the only Jason Taverner record in the new, altered, world.

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The themes of celebrity, genetic enhancement, altered reality and drugs are interwoven with more homely themes to create a novel that works not only as science fiction, but also as literature.

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Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said was awarded first prize in the John W. Campbell Awards for the best science-fiction novel of the year in 1975.

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John W. Campbell Award - Science-fiction - 1975

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Note: the title reference to Flow my tears refers to the piece by the 16th century composer John Dowland, setting to music a poem by an anonymous author. The poem begins:

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16th century - John Dowland

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:Flow, my tears, fall from your springs,

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:Exiled for ever, let me mourn

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:Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings,

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:There let me live forlorn.

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