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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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Story about a civilization which repeatedly rises and falls, because individuals can't stop ...
This sounds like one of the key scenes from The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The aliens are called the "Moties" and, in addition to being specialized by roles as you mention, …
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Sci fi book about destroying a controlling computer read in early 80's
Possibly This Perfect Day (1970), by Ira Levin? This story has already been asked about and answered here, with other seekers mentioning that the protagonist has different-colored eyes (heterochromia) …
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SciFi book featuring an alien race called the Jillies or Gillies
Meredith's We All Died at Breakaway Station (1969), as referenced in this previous unaccepted answer to a question about a novel with a similar premise. …
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Overpopulation novel about a man ripped to pieces by a starving mob, and state-registered pr...
Per the thread cited by Valorum above in a comment, this story was identified as Waters of Death (1967) by Irving A. Greenfield.
An online review notes some of the same details as mentioned by the OP: …
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Novel about a guy who is possessed by the divine essence and the world ends?
If not the novel, you may be thinking of one of the novellas from which the novel was formed. Additional details of the novella versions can be seen in this previous answer. …
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novel identification: alien scientists must save their civilization from future destruction
This sounds similar to the plot of John Brunner's The Crucible of Time, published in 1983. It has been previously asked about here (with no accepted answer) and here (with an author-supplied but not f …
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Sci-fi novel from the 1970's that involves multiple Earths
I found this review, which contains an aside that confirms Jimmy Carter is mentioned:
(our own timeline is discovered late in the novel, and merits only a
brief line about President Carter)
As I recall …
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Novel with mind-trapping sculpture-like object
This is a paperback novel that I read in the 00s, but I am fairly certain that it was published earlier (probably circa 1970s). I believe that it was part of a series (the middle book of a trilogy?) …
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Short story: Interstellar inspector senses "off" nature of planet hiding aggressive culture
Note that I'm tagging this as "novel," because I remember it as being a somewhat separated story, but not with its own title -- more like a vignette within a single book. …
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America broken up into separate regions, a journalist visits the Great Lakes region from the...
The fictional country is called Lakeland and is in the American Midwest:
Greer’s novel is about a future nation in what is now the American
Midwest that has managed to prosper by going backwards
technologically …
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Alien, Middle Ages, Norman Knight
Per the OP's comment above, this was Fanglith by John Dalmas, published 1985.
The Norman Knight angle is better covered in the sequel, Return to Fanglith:
The Federation: Oppressive, dictatoria …
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Sci-Fi book I read in the eighties. Dystopian future where violence is porn
This is likely to be E. C. Tubb's Century of the Manikin (1972). As summarized (probably from the cover blurb) at goodreads.com:
Peaceful, happy, non-violent . . . the perfect society?
Or was …
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Book with a plant that released its seeds every couple of years that corrode everything they...
Per the OP's comment above, this book was Dragonsdawn (1988) by Anne McCaffrey, part of her Dragonriders of Pern series.
Per the plot summary available at Wikipedia:
The planet Pern seemed a paradise …
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Aliens selling household appliances?
Per the OP's comment on another answer, this is Trzeci najazd Marsjan (2010), a novel written in Polish by Marek Oramus (Polish version). …
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Novel: Woman lives her entire life, then finds out it was just practice
I read this book sometime between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The story follows the life of a woman, which starts when she is a newborn in a kind of robotic creche that cares for her, teaches …
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