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Use this tag on [story-identification] questions when the work is a book series or when the written media is unclear but use a more specific tag where appropriate e.g. [novel], [novella], [short-stories], [anthology-book], etc. Use this tag to indicate the question is about the book version or adaptation of a work. For differences between the book and other versions, such as a movie, use [adaptation-comparison].
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Fantasy book series about Gods of Order and Chaos
The books are:
The Initiate
The Outcast
The Master
Long ago, the 7 Chaos gods were banished by the 7 gods of Order and the world is ruled by Order. But the Chaos gods are trying to return. …
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Science fiction book with Masonic influences and set on a starship about a war or mutiny
I read this book in the US, 15-20 years ago, but I believe it dated back to the 70s, based on the general feel.
It was set mostly on a starship. I believe it and other ships had names from Freemason …
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American and Russian computers start talking
Sounds like the 1966 book Colossus, by D F Jones. The Americans create a supercomputer to run the national defenses, but it discovers an equivalent Russian computer, links with it, and takes over the …
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Trilogy from 1990/2000's with men and women sword fighters
Jennifer Roberson's Sword Dancer series (books published from 1986-2013) had the characters of Tiger, a sword-dancer from the South (desert area), and Del, a sword-dancer from the North (cold mountainous …
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Story or Book that features the Tree of life from the Garden of Eden
This is Protector by Larry Niven. Humans (originally a species called 'Pak') originated from a planet near the galactic core. Pak are born stupid as 'Breeders', but then as they grow older they inst …
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Book where the hero becomes telekinetic and sails ship through storm using telekinesis
This is a very long shot, but in the absence of any other answers I'll give it a try.
In either The Many Colored Land (1981) or The Golden Torc (1982) by Julian May, there's a scene where a group o …
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Book where aliens implant a human brain in a fighting machine
Apparently, it's available to read on the Baen Books site. …
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Science fiction/Mythology story/author that may have been in the back of a Michael Moorcock ...
Note: this answer is incorrect; it's a short story called "The Stone Thing" by Moorcock himself, in Elric at the End of Time. See my other answer.
I thought this was Randall Garett's Takeoff!, a coll …
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Science fiction/Mythology story/author that may have been in the back of a Michael Moorcock ...
It turns out that I was remembering the right story, but the author is actually Moorcock himself. It's a short story called "The Stone Thing", from Elric at the End of Time.
Out of the dark places; …
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Science fiction book - defending earth with space shuttles
Possibly Armada by Michael Jahn? From 1982. I recall that the protagonist flies a retrofitted original space shuttle, and there are more modern space shuttles. They're used to combat a massive alie …
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Kids' science fiction, 60s or early 70s, moon worms
This was an illustrated children's science-fiction book I read in the early 1970s, but had a very 1960s feel (thinking back now). There were a couple of astronauts on the moon. Somehow they got into a …
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Book or story where humans are genetically engineered to act as AI?
This matches many parts of Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer, first book of the Terra Ignota series. First book published in 2016.
One faction (the Gordians) has a method of psychological (not gen …
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Book series about post alien invasion Earth being exploited
I have not read the books, but I have seen (the Rifftrax comedy version of) the movie. It's set long after the alien 'Psyclos' have conquered Earth and are mining it. …
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