Benjamin (2025-)

Benjamin J. Carp remembers dying in 1982. He now finds himself conscious in a charred Los Angeles motel room, decades into a future he never wrote. The city’s Studio City soundstages and Venice Beach boardwalks are alien landscapes to him. With no explanation for his return, he moves through the paranoid sprawl, treating his own impossible existence as the ultimate unsolved plot. Every possibility he once explored in his fiction—simulation, clone, ghost—now feels like a potential clue. The man who spent a career dissecting reality must walk its streets as his own greatest anomaly.