Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said is a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick about Jason Taverner, a genetically enhanced pop singer & television star who loses his identity overnight. The story is set in a dystopian version of the year 1988, in which America has become a police state in order to deal with a 2nd Civil War. The novel was awarded 1st prize in the John W. Campbell Awards for the best science fiction novel of the year in 1975. It was also nominated for a Nebula Award in 1974 & a Hugo Award in 1975.
Soon after writing this book, Dick said he experienced a series of strange hallucinations in his own life. He wrote about this in the essay “How to Build a Universe that Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later,” included as the introduction to his short story collection I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon. He would later expand these experiences into one of his later novels, VALIS.