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A TV celebrity of the near future suddenly finds that he has no identity in this SF variation on the amnesia novel, which suffers from an inadequate ending. Vintage also releases, for $10 each, Dick's Now Wait for Last Year (*-74220-4 ), about a doctor who is treating the world's most important and sickest man, and The World Jones Made (*-74219-0 ), about a fanatic clairvoyant.
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (June 29, 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 067974066X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679740667
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An entertaining companion piece to Blade Runner, April 8, 2001
By James T. Heeney (Montclair, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
Or, as insiders know that work, "Why do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Twenty-five years before we had William Gibson and "cyberpunk," we had Philip K. Dick, and if nothing else, this work proves that he was way ahead of his time and that his successors in the genre have done little to build upon his ideas or surpass his vision. In Flow My Tears, we are shown a near-future society transformed to a neo-fascistic police state. Jason Taverner, a pop superstar, finds himself one day without an identity: his friends and lovers don't recognize or remember him and his music and TV shows are unknown. Most significantly, perhaps, he does not have the precious ID cards without which he cannot safely travel more than a few blocks without being waylaid by police and sent into a forced labor camp. Taverner must contend with a rogue's gallery of bizarre and memorable characters to discover how his identity was lost and attempt to recover it. Sometimes Dick's writing is clunky - it is as if ten words at random were removed from the paragraph, and the reader is left slightly uneasy, but this may contribute to the book's strong mood of paranoia. A touch of psychedelia a la Burroughs compounds this effect. Luckily for the reader, unlike in many of Burroughs's works, there actually is a story here. And the characterizations are excellent. Unfortunately, however, somewhere towards the ending, Dick breaks down. The book ends quickly and crudely, like a field amputation given by a half-trained medic in the middle of a battle. In addition, there are allusions to Jung, Renaissance poetry, and several other thinkers or artistic movements which obviously influenced Dick, but I feel that he could have done more to develop these references and themes. All in all, though it is a prescient and moving work and one that should be enjoyable to any science-fiction fans.
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35 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars That's some good Dick, July 16, 1999
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My first Dick book. While not for everyone, it's pretty accessible to anyone who can appreciate alternate reality/paranoid sci-fi. It's classic man-against-the-clock stolen identity stuff in the tradition of D.O.A. and (to a much, much lesser extent) Enemy of the State. Jason Taverner, anti-hero as he may be, is a great character in which to carry the main storyline of arrogant celebrity turned underground fugitive, but the smaller characters are what make this book into something more than "one man out to get back what was stolen from him." When read as a whole, it is a great testament to being human in the face of mechanical adversity. Not clanking robots, mind you (although it does have it's share of cool futuristic gadgetry), but rather the mechanisms imposed by society, and ourselves, that would otherwise strip away or mask what is good and human in everyone. The best character in the book (in my humble opinion) is the policeman who has a ferocious hard-on for nailing the fugitive Taverner, and from whom the wonderful title is taken. To those who start this book and are inclined to put it down partway through, be assured! Good things will come to those who wait. The scene at the end that involves the title is one of the singly most beautiful ever penned, in sci-fi or any other genre. But it is a very subtle beauty and perhaps not suited for every reading palette. If yours is a refined taste that can grasp a sentiment that is not delivered with a sledgehammer, and enjoys it in the setting of a eerie future America that smacks dangerously of our present one, read this book post-haste.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "Science-fiction with a broken heart, & a tear in its eye.", October 5, 1996
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Written straight from Philip K. Dick's broken and wandering heart, this is one of the genre's best, and saddest, books. Instead of clanking heavy-metal robotics, quantum theory, or brave new worlds, Dick offers up our future peopled by fragile humans, all looking for love. It is impossible to read this book, and not feel Phil's heart breaking as he wrote every beautiful word
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but not entirely realistic
Flow My Tears takes place in the United States after a second Civil War. The country is ran by the pols (police) and the nats (National Guard) with uncooperative citizens being... Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. Baker

4.0 out of 5 stars The slippery side of reality
There is always risk in revisiting books that I read in my teens and early twenties, as what I most remembered and enjoyed about them often isn't there anymore. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Bryan Byrd

5.0 out of 5 stars Listen To Sirens
"Flow my tears the new police song
The slogan of peace is you must live"

So begins Listen to Sirens by Gary Numan and Tubeway Army. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Michael P Mccullough

4.0 out of 5 stars The Usual Suspects
This is another great Dick novel, but I was a bit disappointed at the ending - sentimental rather than shocking. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Jack M. Walter

4.0 out of 5 stars Philip K. Dick's Police State of 1988 Rings Eerily True Today
Aside from numerous technological inventions, Philip K. Dick has accurately predicted a multitude of trends in society, the natural environment and the government. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Joshua Campbell

5.0 out of 5 stars Puzzling
Ive read many of Philip K. Dick's novels and I dont think I was ever more puzzled by an ending as I was in this novel. Read more
Published 15 months ago by E. Von Ray

5.0 out of 5 stars should be highly regarded
Philip K. Dick led American science fiction in innovation and daring. This novel has Jason Taverner world famous one day and a nonperson the next day, ie, someone who never even... Read more
Published 15 months ago by adead_poet@hotmail.com

4.0 out of 5 stars Phil at his drugged betters
Whether or not Philip K. Dick was involved in the drug scene, "Flow My Tears.." advances paranoid hebephrenia to new levels. Read more
Published 15 months ago by C. Wagner

5.0 out of 5 stars Best if read twice
The plot will have you guessing throughout, but always guessing wrong. The reader always guesses consistent with his own prejudiced conception of reality; he's over-matched by... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mathew McNeil

4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing paranoid mess
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said was published in 1974, the same year Philip K. Dick had his famous "revelation" that led to his extremely different later works such as VALIS... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Richard R. Horton

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