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Sci-fi story involving telescopic technology that could reach out into space and view the universe from remote locations
Is this Macroscope (1969) by Piers Anthony...?
A group of earthlings begins an exploration of the unknown when they enter the Macroscope, a doorway through time and space
From Wikipedia:
The ...
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Book about a giant spaceship that passes through the solar system
This could be the Rendezvous with Rama series, depending on what you mean by hell at the centre.
The spaceship(s) have picked up multiple species as they pass through various systems
The destination ...
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Book about a giant spaceship that passes through the solar system
This is Marrow, the first of the Great Ship novels by Robert Reed.
When a jovian-sized, artificially-created structure enters the galaxy,
a society of technologically advanced humans (capable of ...
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Book about a famous wizard before he was famous
This is Name of the Wind (first book of the Kingkiller Chronicle) by Patrick Rothfuss. Quoting from the book's Wikipedia page:
As the novel begins, the reader hears an old storyteller speaking of a ...
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Fantasy book series where the main character is a male bard
Could this be Knight of Ghosts and Shadows by Mercedes Lackey and Ellen Guon? The protagonist was a musician and it was part of a book series called Bedlam Bard.
Eric Banyon, a Renaissance Faire ...
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Obscure sci-fi illustration book showing speculative alien life forms on other worlds
The best alternative to Barlow's is the 1979 Galactic Encounters series artbook Aliens in Space: An Illustrated Guide to the Inhabited Galaxy.
The cover art actually seems pretty close to what you ...
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Young adult book series about kids who get different powers when they turn a certain age and their blood turns silver
Is this the Mindwarp (1997-1999) series by Chris Archer...?
This summary from TV Tropes outlines the general premise, mentioning five kids who discover that they have powers and silver blood when they ...
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Sci-fi story involving telescopic technology that could reach out into space and view the universe from remote locations
Not a short story... But in L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth
The humans are using a teleporter they captured, to "Send" then "Retrieve" a camera with perfect optics.
They "...
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Short story about a nuclear war that no one notices
This is The Secret History of World War 3 by J.G. Ballard, ISFDB link here. The news about war gets sidelined in favour of second-by-second updates on Ronald Reagan's health.
Relevant quotes, one from ...
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SciFi Book Find - Alien Precursor Attack Before a Large Scale Invasion (not in series)
This sounds like the Fear Saga by Stephen Moss (Fear the Sky Fear the Survivors, Fear the Future). They were published in 2014.
The infiltrators were androids rather than genetically modified, but ...
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Obscure sci-fi illustration book showing speculative alien life forms on other worlds
I think this may have been the wonderful Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials. It does not contain an alien exactly like what you describe, although it contains two different quadrupeds which, taken ...
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SciFi Book Find - Alien Precursor Attack Before a Large Scale Invasion (not in series)
I think this is probably the Fear series by Stephen Moss. The books were published in 2014 so that fits the time you remember listening to the audiobooks.
In eleven years time, a million members of ...
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Book about a giant spaceship that passes through the solar system
As I remember, another book with a similar plot of a giant spaceship entering the solar system and astronauts visiting it was James White's All Judgement Fled 1966.
Science fiction writer Mike ...
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Sci-fi story involving telescopic technology that could reach out into space and view the universe from remote locations
It's a short story, but is there any chance you're thinking of Isaac Asimov's "The Dead Past"? It involves a Chronoscope, which can see into the past, but is strictly controlled by the ...
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Alien Symbiote Computers that eventually have godlike computer-children
This sounds like a webnovel simply called Symbiote, written and published by someone with the screen name of "Farmerbob1" on their WordPress site.
Here's a link to the first chapter. This ...
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Pre-2000 sci-fi book with FTL travel, conventional guns, and one alien species
Through the Breach by David Drake. It was published in 1995 so it fits the date you remember reading it. This is book two of his Reaches trilogy so it is part of a series as you remember.
Their ...
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Sci fi book with a one-man worldwide army
The Golden Oecumene by John C. Wright
Wright's far-future post-singularity Golden Oecumene trilogy (2002-03), a.k.a. The Golden Age Trilogy, sports a one-man planetary defense system. The guy, named ...
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Hopeful sci-fi book where humans are immortal, and both they and crabs love mathematics
I'm not sure about any of the following.
This might be Incandescence (2008) by Greg Egan. There's two parallel plots. One is a crazily high-tech civilisation of humans and many other species, rather ...
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Young adult book about a boy who becomes a part of a dimension-hopping secret organization
This is the The 13th Reality series by James Dashner.
Book 1: The Journal of Curious Letters (2008)
Book 2: The Hunt for Dark Infinity (2009)
Book 3: The Blade of Shattered Hope (2010)
Book 4: The ...
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Dragon shifter romance series
This must be the Secret Keepers series by Jaymin Eve. The first in the four book series is House of Darken. The summary from Goodreads confirms the main details:
When Emma moves to Astoria, Oregon, ...
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Dark fantasy book series with pre-Columbian Mesoamerican protagonist
It's called Circle at Center by Douglas Niles.
In the kingdom of the Seven Circles, the harmony of the realm and the peaceful lives of its inhabitants are undermined as disaffected members of all the ...
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Fantasy Book Series - travel through Dante's 9 circles
As verified by Ksaid in a comment to the question, this is Philip Jose Farmer's "The Dungeon" series, six books none of which was actually written by Farmer.
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Book series where a magic gauntlet fuses with a girl's arm and turns into a sword
The Coming of Dragons by A. J. Lake, first book in the Darkest Age series. It was published in 2006 so that fits the time you remember reading it.
Edmund, a king’s son in disguise, and Elspeth, a sea ...
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Book/webtoon about a boy with lightning(?) powers who was sent to army(?) school to practice
This is The Fever King:
The sole survivor of a magical plague, Noam Álvaro is accepted into an academy where he will be expected to defend Carolinia, the nation that persecuted his family. Noam ...
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Book written early 80s or before about a 2m tall student on a school spaceship
This is There Is No Darkness (1983) by Jack C. Haldeman, II and Joe Haldeman.
The giant is Carl Bok, and he's not just extremely tall, he's a heavy-worlder, which is why he gets matched up with a ...
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Young Adult book series about humanoid dinosaurs
There are some elements that ring a bell, but definitely others that are not compatible.
However, I give you The Quintaglio Ascension by Robert J. Sawyer.
Three books, a little more than 15 years ago,...
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Sci-fi story involving telescopic technology that could reach out into space and view the universe from remote locations
This is a bit of a stretch, but potentially this could be Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's The Light of Other Days
The technology here is the WormCam, it is a remote viewing wormhole that allows ...
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Book about a man living in the '70s or '80s who falls asleep one night and wakes up in a utopian future
This might be "2150: The Macro Love Story", also titled "2150 A.D." According to the ISFDB, it was originally published in 1971 with authors Don and Thea Plym, but was later ...
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Book about a girl who visits a library and is forbidden to leave her kingdom
It’s The Dark Hills Divide. From Wikipedia:
After going up to her room, Alexa uses a spyglass, stolen from her mother, to look over the walls from her window. She is interrupted by Pervis Kotcher, ...
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Book where a boy discovers a city inside a glacier
I think you have one important point confused; if the book takes place in Greenland and not Antarctica then it's almost definitely First Light (2007) by Rebecca Stead.
Quoting the blurb on Goodreads:
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