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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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Novel in which a female physicist creates a mini-universe
I initially jumped to Cosm by Greg Benford, but I was wrong.
It's As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
It deals with a female particle physicist who accidentally created a miniature univ …
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Do The Puppet Masters duplicate people?
No: The second Barnes is faked using human technology, not a duplicating ability of the aliens
There's a brief allusion to the advances in disguise that the Old Man's section has access to:
Only Cosm …
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I am looking for the title of a book about parallel universes, one with unicorns
Piers Anthony's Apprentice Adept series, probably Split Infinity:
The Game-champion serf Stile is assaulted on Proton by an unknown
enemy, but learns he can escape into a mysterious fantasy world
(Ph …
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Looking for a novel in which newborn babies are taken up clinging to the wings of their fath...
This is a small incident in Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Man, taking place in the relatively near future of a few centuries hence (the book covers two billion years), in an aeroplane-dominated soci …
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Novel about a woman who henches for a supervillain. No powers, but very good with spreadsheets
This is Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots. Every detail of your very detailed question matches. Just to quote a few aspects of the link
Anna Tromedlov works in the gig economy, providing clerical serv …
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Story where character has "boomerdisc"
C C MacApp's novel Bumsider includes this excerpt
The man that slung the boomerdisc was careless
There's not much about it online, but this Amazon page has this quote which might spark a memory
A Bumsider …
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Scifi novel where Earth is run by females
A World Out of Time by Larry Niven
From the article
the Sun has apparently evolved into a red giant and what might be
Earth is in orbit around a super-hot Jupiter.
The Earth's climate has changed, …
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Novel with a human vs alien space war of attrition and explored human clones, religious them...
Possibly Exultant by Stephen Baxter, the middle book in a trilogy, which features a a war against the alien Xeelee. As the linked article states:
The mysterious Xeelee are far more advanced but less …
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Book series about Moon base
I suspect this is Ben Bova's Kinsman series
This amalgamation, then, is the life story of one Chet Kinsman, a
heroic young military astronaut, and, among other things, the first
man to make love in w …
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YA science fiction novel with title starting with the word "Uncle" (I thought)
Well this is embarrassing. I found the book - in spite of being completely wrong about most of the details above.
It's Panda Ray by Michael Kandel - reviewed in Asimovs twice, in 1996 and 1997. It do …
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A novel about converging timelines
This could be Dinosaur Beach by Keith Laumer, which features a man who travels through time to correct the problems caused by other time travelers.
In one scene, the lead character sees his own body ( …
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Novel ID: Book with cloning and an evil clown alien
This review of the third book in the series mentions the interrogation of duplicates:
At the start of the novel, Dannerman is cloned by a group of alien
Horch and imprisoned so they can interrogate him …
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Science fiction novel about a group of genetically engineered young adults that lived in a "...
Singularity's Ring by Paul Melko
The story is set in a future after a singularity event, which caused
the bulk of humanity to disappear. The focus of this event was a huge
space station which rings t …
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Novel in which a research team investigates a rip in the fabric of space
This may be Greg Egan's 2002 novel Schild's Ladder (which is now just over two decades old) about a science experiment that creates a section of space growing in all directions at half the speed of light …
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Novel about a female detective investigating a crime in a society where mind reading through...
Possibly Queen of Angels by Greg Bear:
The central unifying element involves a famous writer, Emmanuel
Goldsmith, who has committed a gruesome series of murders, a crime
almost unheard of in the age …
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