Here is my synapsis for a science fiction horror novel. Essentially the story will be set in the distant future where space travel is possible, along with mining on other planets and moons, and colonization on large space stations. One of these stations, Station 13-08, happens to be orbiting the dwarf planet Pluto and picks up a meteorite crashing into its largest moon Charon.

The meteorite exposes an alien structure underneath the creator and everyone gets excited. Multiple expeditions have been operated with more and more of the structure uncovered and documented. Unfortunately, ever since the structure has been exposed, some of the residents at the station have become mentally unwell. This includes insomnia, bad dreams, dementia, schizophrenia, and outbursts of violence. The cause is unknown. Perhaps its the structure itself. Or perhaps it has something to do with various parasitic organisms that seem to infect some of the colonists. What's the connection between the two? These are just a taste of the bigger mysteries at hand.

The story would mainly be told through diary logs given by different personal of Station 13-08. The idea of these logs was that being in deep space can take a toll on one's mental health, so writing a personal diary would help vent out any feelings. The idea came from audio logs and personal texts that are found throughout various science fiction horror video games such as Soma, System Shock, Alien Isolation, and Dead Space. In fact, the settings in those games also serve as the inspiration for this novel. It would have the right amount of horror, ranging from body horror to psychological horror to even cosmic horror.

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A man is trapped on an island with another person.

He thinks he is having fun with people on the shore the night before. However, when he wakes he finds it was all a hallucination. he realizes his friend is only the top half of a corpse. He proceeds to look up to curse at the sky when a falling ship crashes on him, killing him and destroying part of the island. The focus shifts to an overview of the destruction as the island is revealed to have a blue shuttle crash on the other side named Achilles-03. The focus moves again above the clouds to the planet's atmosphere as a grand battle of warships rages over the planet.

From here this story ends and is merely a short teaser/story for a continuation

The man had always been fascinated by spiders. He loved their intricate webs and their creepy, crawly ways. So when he discovered a giant spider living in his basement, he was over the moon.

The spider's appetite was voracious, and it soon became clear that it preferred human flesh to anything else. The man began kidnapping prostitutes and feeding them to the spider. It was the perfect solution - he got to satisfy his dark desires, and the spider got to feast on human flesh.

In the far future, Humanity is a member of a unified galactic government made up of a variety of sentient races. Comprised of trillions of citizens, the bloated government is so weighed down by bureaucracy and a myriad of internal problems, that change happens very slowly, while small and seemingly mundane issues are handled with seriousness and put through a pan-galactic vote that takes years to count.

In 1022 AF (After Formation), a race of teddy-like aliens called the Ishudavores, who can change their species’ color every 10 years, asks the galaxy to vote on which color they should go with, with this year’s choices being Lavender and Rust. Despite being a relatively tiny issue, the vote is nonetheless treated as seriously as a galactic election, and great effort and media coverage is brought to both sides of the vote. The “1022 color change” soon becomes a dominant topic that is sensationalized in the media all throughout the galaxy, and election fever becomes inescapable.

Kelly Herald, a top campaigner for the Lavender camp, is sent with the campaign ship, the Headline, to the Lagoon Nebula in an attempt to gain support for their color.

(Written as a political satire that comments on how sensational politics in American have gotten.)