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Benjamin #1 (Of 3) C Malachi Ward Variant (06/18/2025) Oni

Benjamin #1 (Of 3) C Malachi Ward Variant (06/18/2025) Oni

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BENJAMIN #1 (OF 3) CVR C MALACHI WARD VAR
(W) BEN H. WINTERS (A) LEOMACS (C) MALACHI WARD
ONI PRESS
StockID: 151553 SKU: 0425ON592

IN ONE L.A. MOTEL ROOM- A COSMIC QUEST IS ABOUT BEGIN. . . . Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award–winner Ben H. Winters (EC’s Cruel Universe- The Last Policeman Trilogy) and rising star Leomacs (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss- Refrigerator Full of Heads) unravel a three-part- prestige format series exploring the hallucinatory second life of a brilliant author who imagined our desperate future but never imagined he’d become part of it . . . More than just a writer- more than just a science-fiction icon- BENJAMIN J. Carp was a cultural revolutionary. Across 44 novels and hundreds of short stories—including the counterculture classic The Man They Couldn’t Erase—Carp pushed the boundaries of literary respectability for the sci-fi genre and his readers’ perception of reality itself . . . until decades of amphetamine abuse and Southern California excess finally ended a mind-bending career that always just escaped mainstream success. He died in 1982. Until 2025 . . . when BENJAMIN J. Carp awakens- alive- in a burned-out motel on the fringes of Los Angeles. He remembers dying. He knows he shouldn’t exist. Is he a dream? A robot? A ghost? A clone? A simulation? In his own time- Carp pondered all of these scenarios intensely through his fiction—and- now- as he treks from Studio City to Venice Beach and onward into the paranoid sprawl of 21st-century Los Angeles- he will be called to investigate his greatest mystery yet: himself. In the tradition of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Dark

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