Kim Miller
Internationally famous TV personality Jason Taverner wakes up in a run down motel with no idea how he got there. His ID is gone from his wallet, and it seems nobody knows him or remembers him. And in a tightly controlled police state where everybody is under surveillance that is a dangerous place to be.
Police databases don't know him, and yet here he is. The man standing before them does not exist. Jason bribes somebody to make false ID for him and it nearly works. He finds he doesn't know who to trust and who is a police informant. He tries to go on the run but it turns out not existing doesn't mean it's easy to hide.
He finds himself being taken to police headquarters and the commander is intrigued by his situation, but can't find anything to charge him with as not existing is not a crime. The entanglement tightens around him with the introduction of some crazy characters, and of course, this being PKD, drugs are involved. Weird drugs, not the normal mind altering stuff, but reality altering stuff.
And just like that it all ends. He wraps up the book like a 'Where are they now?" moment at the end of a TV documentary.
I would have given more stars but found Jason to be often unlikeable and inconsistent. He rarely made me care what happened to him, whereas the surrounding characters had more charm.
Internationally famous TV personality Jason Taverner wakes up in a run down motel with no idea how he got there. His ID is gone from his wallet, and it seems nobody knows him or remembers him. And in a tightly controlled police state where everybody is under surveillance that is a dangerous place to be.
Police databases don't know him, and yet here he is. The man standing before them does not exist. Jason bribes somebody to make false ID for him and it nearly works. He finds he doesn't know who to trust and who is a police informant. He tries to go on the run but it turns out not existing doesn't mean it's easy to hide.
He finds himself being taken to police headquarters and the commander is intrigued by his situation, but can't find anything to charge him with as not existing is not a crime. The entanglement tightens around him with the introduction of some crazy characters, and of course, this being PKD, drugs are involved. Weird drugs, not the normal mind altering stuff, but reality altering stuff.
And just like that it all ends. He wraps up the book like a 'Where are they now?" moment at the end of a TV documentary.
I would have given more stars but found Jason to be often unlikeable and inconsistent. He rarely made me care what happened to him, whereas the surrounding characters had more charm.