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?
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
>mao iiIf you want conspiracy DeLillo then Libra is the one for you.
>>24857252>The Prometheus Deception, Robert Ludlum (transnational groups, greatest ally triple agents, Cold War continuation)Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. DEFCON lectures. The Soviet Defectors.
>>24858077>>24858360much obliged
>>24857252>I'm talking about specifically COINTELPRO/War on Terrornot 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.
>>24858667>William Gibson - Pattern RecognitionWas just about to post this
>>24858667oh yes this one looks good thanks
>>24857252Dan Brown
>>24858667The one OP really wants to read is Spook Country, the one that comes after.
>>24857252Not a novel but Aberration in the Heartland of the Real is pretty good, quotes Pynchon and Delillo several times.
>>24861185I might be retarded but I never really looked into Gibson before, thanks>>24861400hmmm might look it up but for real life ones I've read plenty of RAF/Brigate Rosse memoirs already
>>24857252Clifford the big red dog
>>24861747>RAF/Brigate Rosse memoirs alreadyDon’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.
>>24857252The Illuminatus Trilogy
>>24861747>I never really looked into Gibson beforethat'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 cyberpunkit's hit or miss but pretty unique imho and I like him more for the attempt but my favorite Gibson novel is still Count Zeroalso, be ready for a meandering plot going nowhere
>>24864226All right you've sold me on it !
