If you were hooked by Cayce tracking the anonymous "footage" at Hubertus Bigend’s behest—and how every logo, watermark, and stray forum post might be a clue—you’ll love following Oedipa Maas as she chases the shadowy Tristero through stamps, songs, and symbols. Like Cayce’s late-night dives with Parkaboy and her wary dealings with Blue Ant, Oedipa’s search blurs marketing, myth, and paranoia into a tantalizing puzzle that keeps tightening around her.

Cayce’s hypersensitivity to brands and her obsessive pull toward the "footage" mirror the Biologist’s inward spiral as she studies Area X’s inexplicable phenomena. If Cayce’s quiet resolve in London, Tokyo, and Moscow—despite Dorotea’s sabotage and Bigend’s pressure—drew you in, the Biologist’s cool, clinical voice and unnerving encounters (like the living "tower" of script) will scratch that same itch for interior intensity and creeping revelation.

The way Cayce navigates Blue Ant’s influence—leveraging online communities, parsing forum legends, and guarding herself from invasive branding—echoes Mae Holland’s immersion in the Circle’s all-consuming platform. If Bigend’s corporate omnivorousness and the viral mystique around the "footage" fascinated you, you’ll be gripped by how transparency tech and engagement metrics escalate from clever to claustrophobic.

If you liked how Cayce’s quest unfolds as a quiet, accumulating tension—jet-lagged walks, coded emails from Parkaboy, chance meetings with Stella and Voytek, and a trail that finally leads to Moscow—Murakami’s Toru Okada will resonate. His measured search for a missing wife moves from mundane errands to deep wells and wartime echoes, building that same hypnotic, slow-burn momentum toward unsettling truths.

Gibson’s granular feel for London backstreets, Tokyo cafes, Moscow lofts, and the gloss-grit of Blue Ant’s brandscape finds a twin in Pynchon’s lovingly rendered dot-com New York. If Cayce’s trawls through message boards and streetwear scenes, the Curta-collector subculture, and Bigend’s globe-spanning reach pulled you in, Maxine Tarnow’s dive into DeepArcher, deep-pocketed tech players, and post–9/11 Manhattan offers that same richly textured, culture-soaked world to get lost in.