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Ben H. Winters

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in Washington, D.C., The United States

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Humor, Biographies & Memoirs, Historical Fiction

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Ben H. Winters is the author most recently of the novel The Quiet Boy (Mulholland/Little, Brown, 2021). He is also the author of the novel Golden State; the New York Times bestselling Underground Airlines; The Last Policeman and its two sequels; the horror novel Bedbugs; and several works for young readers. His first novel, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, was also a Times bestseller. Ben has won the Edgar Award for mystery writing, the Philip K. Dick award in science fiction, the Sidewise Award for alternate history, and France’s Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire.

Ben also writes for film and television. He is the creator and co-showrunner of Tracker, forthcoming on CBS. Previously he was a producer on the FX show Legion, and on the upcomin ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 129,172 ratings · 16,131 reviews · 56 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 34,437 ratings — published 2012 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Underground Airlines 3.82 avg rating — 25,641 ratings — published 2016 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Countdown City (The Last Policeman, #2) 3.85 avg rating — 15,642 ratings — published 2013 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World of Trouble (The Last Policeman, #3) 4.04 avg rating — 12,272 ratings — published 2014 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters (Goodreads Author), Jane Austen 3.28 avg rating — 12,119 ratings — published 2009 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Golden State 3.47 avg rating — 7,898 ratings — published 2019 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inside Jobs: Tales from a Time of Quarantine by Ben H. Winters (Goodreads Author), Scott Aiello (Narrator), Kevin T. Collins (Narrator) 3.19 avg rating — 3,109 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bedbugs 3.41 avg rating — 2,850 ratings — published 2011 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Android Karenina by Ben H. Winters (Goodreads Author), Leo Tolstoy 3.45 avg rating — 1,757 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Quiet Boy 3.51 avg rating — 1,708 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I’m proud to say Golden State has gotten some wonderful press.

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“At a time in the real world when everybody seems to own their version of the truth and phrases like “alternative facts” are used to cover falsehoods, Golden State is, no lie, a fascinating examination that takes fidelity and correctness down a freaky Orwellian path.”―USA Today

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“Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it’s all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.”
― Ben H. Winters, The Last Policeman

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“It is a strange kind of fire, the fire of self-righteousness, which gives us such pleasure by its warmth but does so little to banish the darkness.”
― Ben H. Winters, Underground Airlines

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“The first time we met he shot me in the head with an electric staple gun, but our relationship has evolved in the subsequent months.”
― Ben H. Winters, World of Trouble

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2nd Quarter 2019 - SciFi #2

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice, 218p

8 votes, 34.8%

Blindness by José Saramago, 326p

6 votes, 26.1%

Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan, 224p

2 votes, 8.7%

The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, 336p

2 votes, 8.7%

Zero Sum Game by S.L. Huang, 305p

2 votes, 8.7%

The World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick, 199p

2 votes, 8.7%

Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan, 352p

1 vote, 4.3%

The Verne Legacy by Tom Ford, 228p

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Golden State by Ben H. Winters, 319p

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Alien Virus Love Disaster by Abbey Mei Otis, 224p

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“The first time we met he shot me in the head with an electric staple gun, but our relationship has evolved in the subsequent months.”
― Ben H. Winters, World of Trouble

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