{"product_id":"benjamin","title":"Benjamin","description":"\u003cb\u003eIN ONE L.A. MOTEL ROOM, A COSMIC QUEST IS ABOUT TO BEGIN . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore than just a writer, more than just a science-fiction icon, Benjamin J. Carp was a cultural revolutionary. Over the course of 44 novels and hundreds of short stories--including the counterculture classic \u003ci\u003eThe Man They Couldn't Erase\u003c\/i\u003e--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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUntil 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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award winner Ben H. Winters (EC's \u003ci\u003eCruel Universe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Policeman\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy) and rising star Leomacs (EC's \u003ci\u003eEpitaphs from the Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGhostlore\u003c\/i\u003e) comes a uniquely fascinating and hilariously deranged excursion into the metatextual nexus where existence and oblivion, past and future, genius and madness, and glitter and grim reality all meet just beyond Hollywood Boulevard.","brand":"Leomacs, Ben H Winters","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47482613825772,"sku":"9798894880204","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9798894880204.jpg?v=1775653164","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/benjamin","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}