Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

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If that sounds appealing to you, beware: she warns Jason, "Don’t make any sexual advances toward me. If you do I’ll kill you."

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I have been plowing through PKD’s oeuvre the past couple of months. Flow My Tears is probably the tenth or eleventh novel I’ve read at this point, not to mention 1/3 of the exegeses and the short stories. * We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" describes a "bare-bosomed" receptionist at Rekal, the company that sells memories.

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In the short story "The Defenders", the Eastern and Western Blocs had built robots called "leadies" to carry out World War III as proxies while humanity waited out the nuclear holocaust in underground shelters. As soon as humanity went underground, the leadies stopped fighting and began repairing the damage already done, eventually presenting both sides with peace as a fait accompli and predicting that the accomplishments of a united humanity would be "unimaginably great."

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Deus Irae, a novel he cowrote with Roger Zelazny, depicts a world with a reduced and mutated population due to a past nuclear war. A religion has sprung up around one of the scientists behind it.In reality, it’s rare for a person, coming out of a long legal process where they are found innocent, to be embraced by society; often, they remain fairly anonymous and sometimes people maintain suspicions that the person is guilty (under the “If they were arrested they must be guilty” theory). A free world emerges Jason is the perfect choice as main character for this PKD novel exploring individuality since, for Jason, personal identity equals public identity. He’s a celebrity; he’s his own best fan; he’s in love with himself and envisions all of life revolving around his status as celebrity - to be Jason Taverner, to be a star, the ultimate in being alive. Emotion, however, in these “Lachrimae” is remarkably restrained. Each has the same three-part format, with each part repeated. Their titles are in Latin to further maintain formality. “Lachrimae Novae” (“New Tears”) begins the process of introducing new elements, more modern harmonies with greater emphasis on dissonance and freedom of melodic line. Hard Truth Aesop: In "The Hanging Stranger": if someone sees a dead body lying in plain sight and no one else around them is reacting to it, they might be better off keeping their mouth shut and moving on. It serves better as practical advice to take heed of your surroundings and not let on that you notice anything different if you suspect you are in danger. This option would not conflict with Values Dissonance in this case, as the stranger is already dead and beyond help. Absurdly High-Stakes Game: The Game-Players of Titan is concerned with the fictional game "Bluff" where players wager spouses and entire cities among other things.

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Despite being a contemporary of the New Wave Science Fiction cohort, he is not generally considered one of the authors associated with that trend during The '60s and The '70s. They were not widely associated with "weird" as much as they were associated with new literary sensibilities. And PKD works are regarded more for the raw ideas than they are for their literary style and polish. Our Hero Is Dead: Deliberately and effectively subverted in Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, where the main character is killed halfway through and the plot basically falls apart for the rest of the novel.Space Age Stasis: In "Pay for the Printer", humans have stopped building or researching anything and instead choose to rely on alien replicators to make copies of items they already possess. She tries it on herself and possibly on Jason, but unfortunately she accidentally overdoses and kills herself.