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Dead sci-fi author debugs reality in Ben H. Winters’ “Benjamin”

Gareth Branwyn
Mar 10, 2026
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Science fiction has long been drawn to the unsettling possibility that reality itself might be some other lifeform’s poorly coded simulation. Philip K. Dick spent much of his career wandering that rabbit hole. Now a new graphic novel from Ben H. Winters and artist Leomacs takes that idea and turns it inward: what happens when a science-fiction author wa…

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