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Anonymous 11/5/2025, 10:05:25 AM No.24857252 [Report] >>24858360 >>24858667 >>24860377 >>24861400 >>24861753 >>24863892

Books similar to Bleeding Edge?

What books do you know that have a similar subject matter to Pynchon's Bleeding Edge?

I've already read most of his works, I'm talking about specifically COINTELPRO/War on Terror conspiracy type novels, excluding the usual spy fiction types like Le Carré.
I've heard about Don DeLillo's Mao II so far, is that one any good?

Anonymous 11/5/2025, 10:07:29 AM No.24857255 [Report]

This doesn't mean American spooks only, I see Viktor Pelevin's Homo Zapiens as similar in content, recommendations similar to that one would be appreciated too

Anonymous 11/5/2025, 7:10:09 PM No.24858077 [Report] >>24858646

>mao ii
If you want conspiracy DeLillo then Libra is the one for you.

Anonymous 11/5/2025, 9:32:01 PM No.24858360 [Report] >>24858646

>>24857252 (OP)
>The Prometheus Deception, Robert Ludlum (transnational groups, greatest ally triple agents, Cold War continuation)

Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. DEFCON lectures. The Soviet Defectors.

Anonymous 11/5/2025, 11:19:38 PM No.24858646 [Report]

>>24858077
>>24858360
much obliged

Anonymous 11/5/2025, 11:27:27 PM No.24858667 [Report] >>24858900 >>24859346 >>24861185

>>24857252 (OP)
>I'm talking about specifically COINTELPRO/War on Terror
not these (although some of it's in the background, esp 911) but when I read William Gibson - Pattern Recognition, I thought it was BE but good.

Anonymous 11/6/2025, 1:18:20 AM No.24858900 [Report]

>>24858667
>William Gibson - Pattern Recognition
Was just about to post this

Anonymous 11/6/2025, 5:47:43 AM No.24859346 [Report]

>>24858667
oh yes this one looks good thanks

Anonymous 11/6/2025, 7:02:21 PM No.24860377 [Report]

>>24857252 (OP)
Dan Brown

Anonymous 11/7/2025, 1:25:00 AM No.24861185 [Report] >>24861747

>>24858667
The one OP really wants to read is Spook Country, the one that comes after.

Anonymous 11/7/2025, 2:46:15 AM No.24861400 [Report] >>24861747

>>24857252 (OP)
Not a novel but Aberration in the Heartland of the Real is pretty good, quotes Pynchon and Delillo several times.

Anonymous 11/7/2025, 6:55:54 AM No.24861747 [Report] >>24862566 >>24864226

>>24861185
I might be retarded but I never really looked into Gibson before, thanks
>>24861400
hmmm might look it up but for real life ones I've read plenty of RAF/Brigate Rosse memoirs already

Anonymous 11/7/2025, 7:02:05 AM No.24861753 [Report]

>>24857252 (OP)
Clifford the big red dog

Anonymous 11/7/2025, 4:56:51 PM No.24862566 [Report]

>>24861747
>RAF/Brigate Rosse memoirs already
Don’t about those but Aberration goes into MK Ultra, ayyliums and UFOs, the deep state, Operation Desert Storm, white supremacist/neo nazi terrorist cells, operation paperclip, and connects it all to the Oklahoma bombing. And it’s funny how Timothy McVeigh is just like the average /pol/tard, but the books paints him as a somewhat tragic character. It’s a very Pynchonesque book.

Anonymous 11/8/2025, 4:31:48 AM No.24863892 [Report]

>>24857252 (OP)
The Illuminatus Trilogy

Anonymous 11/8/2025, 10:22:47 AM No.24864226 [Report] >>24864334

>>24861747
>I never really looked into Gibson before
that's not merely Gibson though, it's Gibson in its 'post-sci-fi phase' or something, when he's trying to make the present feel like cyberpunk
it's hit or miss but pretty unique imho and I like him more for the attempt but my favorite Gibson novel is still Count Zero
also, be ready for a meandering plot going nowhere

Anonymous 11/8/2025, 11:42:57 AM No.24864334 [Report]

>>24864226
All right you've sold me on it !