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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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Book taking place in NW U.S., People find a portal
I believe this is Wildside by Steven Gould (who is more known for the Jumper series).
From this review, we see some of the key points, young people, a portal to an unspoiled Earth, and planes:
Ei …
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Book: Dystopian Future; Memory Saved on Crystals; Paid Torture for Fun
And from searching inside on Google Books, I found references to the "one and only one" tool rule, and the needle-glove in particular:
He looked on every shelf, studying each weapon, pondering the …
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80s book similar to the Netflix movie "The Titan": man transformed for space travel turns in...
Possibly Man Plus (1976) by Frederik Pohl?
From Wikipedia:
In the not-too-distant future, a cold war threatens to turn hot. Colonization of Mars seems to be mankind's only hope of surviving certain A …
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Looking for a two or three part sci-fi book with an alien space station and ships that scave...
Mostly you seem to be describing Gateway by Frederik Pohl, part of the Heechee series consisting of five books. … Martins, 1977)
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Del Rey, 1980)
Heechee Rendezvous (Del Rey, 1984)
The Annals of the Heechee (Del Rey, 1987)
The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway (Tor Books, …
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Alien invasion with mythological undertones
I'm not 100% confident about this, but I'm going to take a shot and guess:
The Darkness of the Light by Peter David
The Damned World is home to twelve races, each of which has fought the others for …
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Book about a supervillain who can pulls guns out of hammerspace - Cover shows him with two h...
Possibly "Supervillainous!: Confessions of a Costumed Evildoer" by Mike Leon, which came out in 2011.
The cover does indeed show a guy in purple with what looks like multiple guns though it could eas …
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Title of 2 books about 2 different alien species who are fighting for earth
But read both books and the reader gets something else - another view of (some of) the same events and crossover points, culminating in a bloody battle at Canary Wharf. … The two books can be read in any order, but together they tell the story of humanity caught in the crossfire between two deadly alien races, who have made Earth their battleground... …
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