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For questions about a book of long narrative in literary prose, in order to distinguish it from other types of story. Do NOT use this tag for every question which happens to be about a novel. Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the novel and its form in other media.
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Exoskeletons and rabid baboons
Sounds like one of Edmund Cooper's Expendables series - the four novels in the series were about a team of astronauts led by James Conrad, proving planets safe for colonisation. Standard equipment inc …
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Science fiction novel with one-armed protagonist and a homicidal squirrel
Necromancer by Gordon R Dickson - chronologically it is the first in his Childe Cycle of novels
The main protagonist Paul Formaine loses an arm in a mining accident.
At a later point in the story he …
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Science Fiction Novel depicting a society where people are paid to shop and pay to work
The part where people are paid for buying but pay to work sounds like Lloyd Biggle's Round Trip To Esidarap, where a couple from our world take a trip to 'Kroywen' offered by a competing travel agency …
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Novel about signals from aliens that turns out to be from dolphins
This describes Stationary Orbit by Peter Macey, published in 1974.
A young radio astronomer is working on a new receiver when he picks up signals thought to be from aliens. At the end of the book h …
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An Ace novel whose lead character takes alias of John Carter
This is 'No Man's World' by Kenneth Bulmer (also published as 'Earth's Long Shadow'). From the inside cover, and can be seen on Goodreads.
When John Carter came to the Horakah Cluster, it was in the …
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With parthenogenesis, who needs men?
The question contains what I think is the answer; Who Needs Men? by Edmund Cooper.
Rura Alexandra, Madam Exterminator, had recently graduated into a 25th century world where men had become biological …
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Older science fiction book about time travel to retrieve things but they went sideways throu...
The Flight of the Horse by Larry Niven matches all the points you list
The book contains seven stories about Hanville Svetz's missions to retrieve objects from the past. There is also a novella set i …
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