Anonymous
10/30/2025, 8:02:07 PM
No.24842004
This one has been bugging me for months so I thought /sffg/ might be the place to ask.
I started reading The Montauk Project and found the idea fascinating. Obviously, the book is a bunch of factual baloney and as work of fiction, to put in mildly, sophomoric. Still, I found parts of the narrative fascinating: the late 20th century CIA-style experiments on the human mind converging on paranormal phenomenon beyond this earth, the first-person narrator's crisis of identity upon discovering they used to be a major part of it, etc.
Are there actually decently-written novels about this kind of thing? I have come across two pieces of media that take direct inspiration from it, Stranger Things and the Chronos/Remnant video games (maybe that new Outlast co-op game too, haven't played it) so I suppose it must be a whole subgenre in the conspiracy thriller genre.
I started reading The Montauk Project and found the idea fascinating. Obviously, the book is a bunch of factual baloney and as work of fiction, to put in mildly, sophomoric. Still, I found parts of the narrative fascinating: the late 20th century CIA-style experiments on the human mind converging on paranormal phenomenon beyond this earth, the first-person narrator's crisis of identity upon discovering they used to be a major part of it, etc.
Are there actually decently-written novels about this kind of thing? I have come across two pieces of media that take direct inspiration from it, Stranger Things and the Chronos/Remnant video games (maybe that new Outlast co-op game too, haven't played it) so I suppose it must be a whole subgenre in the conspiracy thriller genre.