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Book about a time traveling city, metallic eggs, and psychic wars

A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones. It was published in 1987, so well before you read it. Time City — built far in the future on a patch of space outside time — holds the formidable task of ...
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Was the idea of a ship going through a star to refuel based on previous work?

Samuel Delany's 1968 novel "Nova" involves retrieving "Illyrion" from inside novae to use as starship fuel. Wikipedia says: Illyrion is a fictional superheavy element with an ...
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Was the idea of a ship going through a star to refuel based on previous work?

Ray Bradbury wrote about this in his 1953 short “The Golden Apples of the Sun”. In it a spaceship called the Copa de Oro (Golden Cup) goes on a mission to collect material from inside the sun and ...
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Prince who was either a robot or a human who needed another heart

This sounds like the children's novel Clockwork, or All Wound Up by Philip Pullman, published in the United Kingdom in 1996, then in the United States in 1998. The plot description below is from ...
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Looking for sci-fi short story about a spacecraft flight simulator consultant

It's not a perfect match, but this does have a strong similarity to "Design Flaw" by G. Harry Stine (writing as Lee Correy), published in Astounding, February 1955. The protagonist, Cal, is ...
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