/lit/ - Literature

anyone read any interesting SPOOKY SCI FI recently? I mean stuff where there are strange objects or happenings or environments. Like blindsight, roadside picnic, diamond dogs, etc.

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>tfw once in the past six months

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>>12847527
I had the same problem for quite a while. Took me at least two and a half years of effort to finally break through. Pressing that submit button to put my writing online was one of the most difficult things I've ever done, and after I posted it I had to walk away from the computer and pace around my house in some kind of miniature psychotic episode before deciding to go to sleep and try to forget it ever happened. Checking my computer in the morning was also really fucking hard, but miraculously someone had left an extremely positive and poignant comment. I took a screenshot of it and look at it from time to time.

It helped that I had already scrapped three full-length novels before even thinking about posting something online, but that's the point. The important thing is you don't stop writing even if you hate it and every aspect of it makes you cringe. If you're not writing, you should at least be reading books with a critical eye. Jot down anything you find interesting, or copy any prose you find that perfectly describes something. Whenever I finish reading a book, I try to summarize the whole thing in my mind, following the entire journey from memory, which helps it stick in my mind.

I'm still extremely sensitive, and by no means think I have reached that apparently unattainable ideal of what my writing SHOULD look like that most perfectionists have, but it helps that I have a handful of fans who genuinely look forward to what I write, even if I don't think it's that great. Even if it's unattainable, what's important is I never stop trying to improve.

Can /lit/ help me find a book?

I read it when I was probably around 10 or 11. These are the things I remember about it:

>set in Harare, Zimbabwe about 100 years in the future
>it's about a white girl(?) who goes missing and so her parents hire three mystic detectives to track her down
>each detective has some sort of special skill, like being blind but being able to "touch" emotions, or being able to talk to snakes, etc.
>there's also a hotel that's a mile high called the Mile High McLewan(?) or something

That's all I remember. It was pretty weird, but also pretty darn interesting

Aliens have left artifacts on Earth. Advances in quantum physics detection tools like CERN, LHC etc have allowed humans to detect the weird signatures these artifacts give off. The artifacts have incredible, bizarre, miraculous and terrifying properties. People experiment with them to determine how they work. I'd write the book as a series of journal-like entries from different researchers learning about the artifacts, or explorers trying to find them.

All my philosophy does is doubt itself posing questions after questions until truth is naught. It isolates and clashes its different parts to create disharmony. Metaphysics is disjointed from science, science to morals; religion is destroyed.
Things such as love I perceive as subjectivities that only mean something while you experience them, but completely foraneus to philosopy (although they can be beautifully expressed artistically.)

Well the point of this is asking,

Does anyone here think and write for the sake of communicating happiness, or is it always a neverending dissection of the world (usually done in confusion)?