Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick

The former student population are polar opposites and live a hounded and desperate existence constantly under threat by the Nats and the Pols. As a consquence their social status has been elevated to the point that someone who does so much as verbally harras an African American can be arrested and face a serious prison term. This originally led to a number of atrocities such as the compulsory sterilization of African American's which resulted in a very sharp decline in their population before the law was eventually reversed. Originally written in 1974, Flow my tears, the policeman said is set in the then future 1988 United States where a second civil war has led to a collapse of democracy and given rise to a post-totalitarian era where the National Guard (Nats) and the Police force (Pols) control the state through a dictatorship. Jason is suddenly a nobody in a police controlled dystopian world where identity is everything, Jason must use all his unnatural talents to not only stay alive but somehow restore his former life. After a failed assasination attempt, he wakes to find out all record of him and his fame vanish overnight, with no birth records and seemingly no memory of who he was from his former friends and fans alike. Known as a 'six', there were only ever a few of these ever born, and even fewer surviving over 40 years later. He is also the result of a top secret government genetic engineering project to create unnaturally bright and beautiful people, 40 years ago. Jason Taverner is a TV idol, singer and host and is adored by over 30 million fans world-wide. Flow my tears, the policeman said is a science fiction novel by the legendary award winning author Philip K Dick, has been nominated for the Nebula and Hugo awards and won the 1975 John W Campbell Award for the best science fiction novel of the year.

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick