"The Godmakers" by Don Pendleton (1970)
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from the back cover blurb: “He had to explore the unknown, to escape his body, to travel to the root octave of the Ninth Parallax.”

"Growing up in Tier 3000" by Felix C Gotschalk (1975)
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Gotschalk would be an awesome pseudonym for a chalk talker. Here’s a bit about the author: “Born 1929 in Richmond, Virginia. BS ’54, MS ’56 psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University. Doctoral work at Tulane ’57-’58. Taught psychology at Nicholls College in Louisiana ’58-’62, a psychologist in North Carolina since ’62. Married, two children. Weight-lifter, pianist, composer, poet, model-builder, painter and inventor. Author of 35 short stories, a novelette and one novel.”

"Out from Ganymede" by Barry N Malzberg (1974)
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I’ve heard that Malzberg is good, and I’ve picked up a couple of his books but I haven’t had a chance to read any yet.

"The Reefs of Space" by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson (1964)
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from the first page blurb: “…the Reefs of Space, the half-mythical bodies that circled the solar system far beyond the orbit of Pluto.”