Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said is a dystopian science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that explores identity, surveillance, and reality in a totalitarian future America.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said canonical | 2 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Philip K. Dick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award | John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| centralConflict | protagonist suddenly becomes unknown to everyone ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coverArtist | Doubleday first edition cover artist (United States) ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
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science fiction ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| hasForm |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later dystopian science fiction dealing with surveillance ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
altered reality
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drug use ⓘ erasure of identity ⓘ media and fame ⓘ police state ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | New Wave science fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Alys Buckman
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Felix Buckman NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Taverner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Hugo Award for Best Novel
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Nebula Award for Best Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | exploration of personal identity in a surveillance state ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Philip K. Dick bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1974 ⓘ |
| publisher | Doubleday ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | near-future America ⓘ |
| setting | totalitarian United States ⓘ |
| theme |
celebrity
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identity ⓘ memory ⓘ reality ⓘ state control ⓘ surveillance ⓘ totalitarianism ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | “Flow, my tears” by John Dowland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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