But, frankly, those that enjoy him will overlook all of this, because one doesn't read PDK for plot coherence, visionary futurism or character development. He has this quirk in his brain that lets him spin out freakishly interesting puzzles of an existential nature.

Flow, My Tears, The Policeman Said - Internet Archive Flow, My Tears, The Policeman Said - Internet Archive

Gary Numan referenced the novel in the 1978 song "Listen to the Sirens" from the debut Tubeway Army album. The song opens with the lyric, ""Flow My Tears", the new police song"."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. Alys presumably obtains access to some KR-3 through Felix ("she must have ripped it off from the [police] academy's special-activities lab...she always tried anything new").

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said’ (1974) probes police state ‘Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said’ (1974) probes police state

Fisher Kingdom: The various worlds of Eye in the Sky started twisting visitors to match their worldviews. Because each "world" was in fact inside someone's head in a sort of shared hallucination.For all except the totally successful, being a professional writer is a hell of a life, which I would only wish cheerfully on people who are cruel to animals. Mental Story: Eye in the Sky takes place in a sort of shared mental world, with the current most-dominant personality warping it to their prejudices and worldview. Same with A Maze of Death, only there is no dominant personality in that world. But the second half is tragic. He speaks in great detail about Flow My Tears and claims that some Spirit guided his hand as he wrote it. He notes parallels between events in the book and events that later happened in his life, and suggests a cosmic importance. He even draws a connection between a scene in the book (in which police general Felix has an emotional moment with a stranger at a gas station) and a scene in Acts (in which Paul meets a stranger on a road), claiming that it was “an obvious retelling” of that Biblical story. Hailed as "The Godfather of Science Fiction", he has a strong cult-following pan-globally which has been growing since his death in the early 1980s, encouraged by the relevance that a lot of his works have to modern day society. A lot of his more thought-provoking works continue to be the subject of analysis today. She tries it on herself and possibly on Jason, but unfortunately she accidentally overdoses and kills herself.

FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID - Philip K. Dick FLOW MY TEARS, THE POLICEMAN SAID - Philip K. Dick

Nevertheless, based on this deluded confirmation bias, PKD goes on to claim that our reality is a sort of hologram overlaying a TRUE Biblical reality, in particular the time period of around 50 AD when Acts was written. I had been told that PKD's books, esp. those near the end of his writing career (which would include 'Flow...') can be abstruse and vexing, but I didn't find that to be true. I found the writing to be, by turns, engaging, elliptic, straightforward (in its own way), (sometimes menacingly) poetic, funny ("It's probably the man from upstairs. He borrows things. Weird things. Like two fifths of an onion."), teasing, of course tense, and (sometimes) even quite tender (esp. the penultimate chapter; sooo good!). 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. PKD phrases the authenticity of humanity in terms of resistance to external threats, but I would suggest the greatest threats to reality come from within. It is our own venal, desperate, confused selves we must watch and resist. Alas, PKD’s resistance was not enough. For reasons too complex for any of us to know, he transformed from a man who was seeking reality to a man who believed he had found it. The ultimate dead end.Me he mezclado con un ser complicado, raro y desequilibrado[...]. Tan malo como no he encontrado aún en mis cuarenta y dos años" In addition to being such a rich text, “Tears” is also a great read. The mystery of how Taverner ends up in an alternate reality is compelling (compare this to the abandoned mystery in “The Game-Players of Titan”), and the solution is fascinating: Alys’ drug use creates a temporary reality for everyone she was thinking about. What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Plenty of his writings involve Artificial Humans or Ridiculously Human Robots and raise questions about whether their lives are just as valuable as "real" humans. Reality Warper: Emmanuel and Zina in The Divine Invasion. Either that or everyone's crazy, which is equally possible. The two characters have a disagreement over how the world should be run, reflecting perennial mystical themes and Kabbalah. Actually, Manny and Zina are (aspects of?) God. So reality warping comes naturally, kinda.