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Quote from Discworld about Ankh-Morpork tolerance and greed
The closest I can find - specifically talking about diverse peoples - is a line from Reaper Man:
Ankh-Morpork has always had a fine tradition of welcoming people of all races, colours and shapes, if ...
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YA novel about a clumsy boy who learns it is actually his talent
It sounds like the Alcatraz series of books, by Brandon Sanderson. The first book is titled Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians. I've not read it, but here's some snips from TvTropes that line up with ...
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Quote from Discworld about Ankh-Morpork tolerance and greed
Possibly Pyramids
There had been one or two like that in Ankh-Morpork—deposed royalty,
who had fled their suddenly-dangerous kingdoms for Ankh’s hospitable
bosom carrying nothing but the clothes they ...
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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 ...
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Solid state drug addiction
The sequel to Larry Niven's Ringworld, the 1979 book The Ringworld Engineers, features the protagonist, Louis Wu, as a wirehead—someone addicted to electronic stimulation of major pleasure centers in ...
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Book about a character born in-between time on some sort of timeship
Is this Invictus (2017) by Ryan Graudin...?
The Goodreads plot summary notes that the protagonist, Farway "Far" McCarthy, was born outside of time and is the son of a time-traveller from the ...
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Fantasy novel involving mythical creatures on a farm and two children staying with a relative for the summer
The book is called The Dragons at Ordinary Farm by Tad Williams.
Tyler and Lucinda have to spend summer vacation with their ancient uncle Gideon, a farmer. They think they're in for six weeks of cows,...
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Scifi book with teenagers growing in a spaceship, which crashes when landing on a new planet
I think this is likely to be Half Way Home by Hugh Howey, published in 2010. The premise is that interstellar colonisation is performed by sending out slower than light ships with fertilised embryos. ...
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Solid state drug addiction
Another possibility, also by Niven, is "Death by Ecstasy" (1969).
The protagonist, Gil Hamilton, works for a worldwide law enforcement organization known as ARM. Since Gil has a psychic ...
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Quote from Discworld about Ankh-Morpork tolerance and greed
Possibly Moving Pictures
Every so often a ruler of the city builds a wall around Ankh-Morpork, ostensibly to keep enemies out. But Ankh-Morpork doesn’t fear enemies. In fact it welcomes enemies, ...
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Solid state drug addiction
Daniel K Moran's The Last Dancer fits this description. My copy is from 1993, but the plot is drawn from a larger framework of stories that Moran started putting out in the 80s so the wireheads may ...
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Sci-fi, mid-grade/YA novel about a girl in a wheelchair beta testing the world's first fully immersive VR program
I believe this is The Faces of Fear (1998) by Monica Hughes. From a review at Qull and Quire:
After a car accident leaves 15-year-old Joan Sandow without the use of her legs, Joan’s world looks ...
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SF book with alien planet, whose plant life lacks chlorophyll / is not green and is being outcompeted by Earth plants
This is Greg Bear's Legacy which takes place primarily on a planet called Lamarckia because it appears that evolution happens by the Lamarckian process there (with entities' experiences affecting ...
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Girl taken from her village and trained in magic in a tower
Uprooted by Naomi Novik fits both the plot and cover description.
From the Wikipedia recap:
Agnieszka lives in the village of Dvernik in the kingdom of Polnya. Every ten years the local wizard ("...
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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 ...
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Sci-fi, mid-grade/YA novel about a girl in a wheelchair beta testing the world's first fully immersive VR program
Could this be The Faces of Fear by Monica Hughes?
The cutting-edge world of VR opens doors for Joan that the accident (that confined her to a wheelchair) slammed shut - just what her father, computer ...
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Book about a boy who doesn't believe in magic after his older magician brother disappeared
Bad Magic by Pseudonymous Bosch.
Magic is BAD. As in fake. Cheesy. Unreal. At least, that's what Clay, who has seen one magic show too many, thinks.
When words from his journal appear mysteriously on ...
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French sci fi novel: political chaos, VR technology, Islamic professor
This is almost certainly Le Dixième Cercle by Guy Thuillier. The author was 27-28 when the book was published in 1999 (source), and the back cover of the paper version features a photograph of him ...
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Fantasy novel involving mythical creatures on a farm and two children staying with a relative for the summer
Might this be Fablehaven by Brandon Mull as per Book: Girl can see magical creatures, finds secret passages at her grandparents'?
The series begins as 13-year-old Kendra and 11-year-old Seth ...
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Novel in which the far future remnants of civilisation are visited by other descendants who left Earth long ago
This is a long shot, but parts of your description remind me of City at World's End, a novel by Edmond Hamilton which was also the answer to the old questions Wake up a planet by detonating deep down ...
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Old sci-fi novel about the last survivors of the human race working as mercenaries
This sounds like it could be "Recall Not Earth" by C.C. MacApp (Dell, 1970). Back cover blurb:
All life on Earth had been destroyed in a quick and easy kill by the great and ruthless ...
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Scifi book with teenagers growing in a spaceship, which crashes when landing on a new planet
While it's general hibernation technology rather than cocoons, this reminds me of Remnants by K.A. Applegate.
Remnants is a series of science fiction books co-authored by Katherine Applegate and her ...
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Novel in which the far future remnants of civilisation are visited by other descendants who left Earth long ago
It's only somewhat on point, but the "space elevator" makes me wonder if you are remembering Arthur C. Clarke's The Songs of Distant Earth, initially a novella (1958), and later (1986) ...
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A time loop manga or manhwa where mc is an office worker and the world starts to change and when he goes out he finds a Minotaur and dies
This is Only I Know the World Is Ending And Getting Killed by Rampaging Beasts Only Makes Me Stronger.
Akira Ichijo is your average, run-of-the-mill businessman. One day, on his way home from work, ...
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A book about a girl who experience murders in her dreams
It's a long shot, but since no other answers have been posted I'm going to suggest Killing Dreams by Donnette Smith. It was published in 2021 so that's two years ago and it is on the Google Play Store ...
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