Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of unnaturally bright and beautiful people. He is also a TV star the prime-time idol of millions until, inexplicably, all record of him is wiped from the data banks of Earth.<br/><br/> Suddenly he's a nobody in a police state where nobody is allowed to be a nobody. Will he ever be rich and famous again? Was he, in fact, ever rich and famous? <br/><br/><b>About the Author</b><br/><br/> Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, <i>Beyond Lies the Wub</i> in 1952. He wrote more than 50 novels and among his finest are <i>The Man in the High Castle</i> (later adapted for television), <i>Time Out of Joint</i>, <i>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</i> (on which the film <i>Blade Runner</i> is based) and <i>Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said</i>. He also continued publishing short stories throughout his life including <i>We Can Remember It For You Wholesale</i>, which later inspired <i>Total Recall</i>.