/lit/ - Literature

Besides Bakker's work, the Malazan series, and the Middle-Earth canon (as imparted to us through the writings of Tolkien and later, his son Christopher), what other fantasy series bear the "mark of autism" or are worthy to stand among those previously mentioned works? GoT, Mistborne, and WoT need not apply.

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>tfw hardly a chance to set a record in anything due to supreme competition
I used to struggle with this too: what's the point of creating anything, whether it be literature, art, music, literally any art form, when you're living in a world where all the records have been set and everything has been done? I cope with this by telling myself that, I'm not writing for the world, I'm not writing to be recognized (okay, maybe a little, but that's not my primary purpose) or remembered, I'm writing because, on some fundamental level, there's something that I want to express, something I want to put out into the world, regardless of whether it is recognized or heralded or not. At the end of the day, I'd rather write something and put it out there and be ignored than not write anything at all and spend all my time wondering about what could have been. One story I remember is the one about Henry Darenger, a guy who spent most of his life in crippling loneliness and isolation. He created hundreds of paintings and wrote several thousands-of-pages-long books over his lifetime, but he never shared them with anyone. When he became to old to take care of himself and was moved into a nursing home, his landlord was shocked to find all the beautiful artwork that was hidden away. When they mentioned it to him and complemented him on it, he was surprised; all he did was shake his head and say "Well, too late now." Years later and his original paintings are selling for millions of dollars.