BENJAMIN #1 (OF 3)

In a burned-out motel room in Los Angeles, a cosmic quest begins. "Benjamin" is a three-part series by Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award-winner Ben H. Winters, with art by rising star Leomacs. This series explores the hallucinatory second life of Benjamin J. Carp, a brilliant author who imagined our desperate future but never imagined he'd become part of it. Carp, a cultural revolutionary and sci-fi icon, pushed the boundaries of literary respectability until his career ended in 1982. Now, in 2025, he awakens in L.A., questioning his existence. Is he a dream, a robot, a ghost, a clone, or a simulation? As he journeys through 21st-century Los Angeles, he investigates his greatest mystery: himself. Inspired by Philip K. Dick's "A Scanner Darkly" and Thomas Pynchon's "Inherent Vice," this series is a fascinating excursion into the metatextual nexus of existence and oblivion.

Who might be interested in reading?

• Fans of science fiction and speculative fiction.
• Readers who enjoy existential and philosophical themes.
• Those intrigued by stories of cultural revolutionaries and counterculture icons.
• Enthusiasts of Philip K. Dick and Thomas Pynchon.