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Use for identifying a work of SF or Fantasy, including novels, movies, comic books, fanfic, TV series, video games, etc. Use with other tags to specify the type of media, eg. [short-stories]. Use [episode-identification] for identifying a single episode of a known series, whether TV, book, or comic. Use [actor-identification], [character-identification], [music-identification], or [object-identification] for those specific ID requests instead.
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Book series referencing "Tiger tiger" and "Stars, I have seen them fall"
I don't know if it's the book you're looking for, but the three poems you mention are all quoted in Neverness, a 1988 novel by David Zindell (in his Neverness Universe series) which was the answer to …
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Short story about a man living In an apartment who's curious about his neighbor who turns ou...
This is a long shot, as it's not a very good match for your description:
The man is in a hotel room rather than an apartment.
His curiosity is aroused, not by a noise, but by a dream of blood coming …
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Story with hell as a hollow planet
Inside Outside, a 1964 novel by Philip José Farmer, which can be borrowed (for free but registration required) from the Internet Archive. Humans and demons inside a hollow spherical "hell", but the hu …
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Earth woman takes alien lover with blue hair and blond eyes, has invisible baby
"Love in the Dark" a.k.a. "Love Ethereal", a short story by H. L. Gold first published in Suspense Magazine, Fall 1951, available at the Internet Archive. You may have read it in the 1952 paperback an …
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Collection of short stories with various theories about time travel
This is a complex question: we have two stories to identify, and the collection they both appeared in.
I. THE FIRST STORY is definitely "Moment Without Time" by Joel Townsley Rogers, first published i …
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60s? novel. Man hibernates to sleep for hundreds (thousands?) of years multiple times
The Man Who Awoke, a 1975 fix-up novel by Laurence Manning, which was also the answer to the old question A man builds a suspended animation machine to visit the future; originally published as a 5-pa …
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Short story where a Victorian gentleman travels to Mars, claims it for the British Empire an...
"Dominions Beyond" a.k.a. "The Second Trip to Mars", a short story by Ward Moore. You may have read it in one of these compilations, perhaps in the 1964 hardcover anthology The Saturday Evening Post R …
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A short story where the laws of physics now match the delusions of the insane
"The Men Return", a short story by Jack Vance which was also the answer to the old question Short story: Earth in a pocket of non-causality; first published in Infinity Science Fiction, July 1957, ava …
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A novella (?) about "experts" in the theory of time travel and their "Socratic" mentor
"Bank and Shoal of Time", a novelette by R. A. Lafferty, first published in the 1981 paperback anthology A Spadeful of Spacetime (Fred Saberhagen, ed.), which can be borrowed (for free but registratio …
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Short story about travelling alien entering soldiers body as he dies.. John Dix?
"From These Ashes . . ." a.k.a. "Entity Trap", a short story by Fredric Brown which was also the answer to the question Alien consciousness 'finds' human soldier, soldier becomes President; first publ …
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Trying to find an old book (fantasy or scifi?) in which the protagonist and their romantic p...
That sounds a lot like "Z", a novelette by Charles L. Fontenay, first published in If, June 1956, available at the Internet Archive; you might have read it in one of these compilations.
The narrator m …
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SF novel where the story, or part of it, is narrated by two linked brains taking turns
"We Fused Ones", a novelette by Perry A. Chapdelaine; first published in If, July 1968, available at the Internet Archive; reprinted in the anthology Mind at Bay (Christopher Evans, ed.), also availab …
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Old UK novel with travel through soap films
Occam's Razor, a 1957 novel by David Duncan, can be borrowed (for free but registration required) from the Internet Archive. You may have read the 1962 Four Square Books edition.
From the Encyclopedi …
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Short story about a dentist trapped in the past
"The Doctor", a 1967 short story by Theodore L. Thomas. You may have read it in one of these compilations. I read it in the anthology Alpha One (Robert Silverberg, ed.), which can be borrowed (for fre …
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Short story about a scientist abducted and experimented on by aliens
"Learning Theory", a short story by James McConnell which was also the answer to the question Literature scene where a man determines he's in a space station by doing some tests; first published in If …
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