The Coming of the Quantum Cats

10 best books like The Coming of the Quantum Cats (Frederik Pohl): The Future of Another Timeline, Roma, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Startide Rising, Vessel, The Ringworld Engineers, The Marx Sisters, 1933 Was a Bad Year, The Man in the Ice: The Discovery of a 5000-year-old Body Reveals the Secrets of the Stone Age, Children of the Fleet

The Future of Another Timeline

Author	Annalee Newitz
ISBN	0765392127

From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.

1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat,...

Roma

Author	Steven Saylor
ISBN	0312328311

Spanning a thousand years, and following the shifting fortunes of two families though the ages, this is the epic saga of Rome, the city and its people.
     Weaving history, legend, and new archaeological discoveries into a spellbinding narrative, critically acclaimed novelist Steven...

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Author	Michael Chabon
ISBN	0060790598

The enthralling debut from bestselling novelist Michael Chabon is a penetrating narrative of complex friendships, father-son conflicts, and the awakening of a young man’s sexual identity.

Chabon masterfully renders the funny, tender, and captivating first-person narrative of Art...

Startide Rising

Author

David Brin

David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species...

Vessel

Author	Lisa A. Nichols
ISBN	1501168770

An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story…. A tense, psychological thriller perfect for fans of Dark Matter and The Martian.

After Catherine Wells’s ship experiences...

The Ringworld Engineers

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0345418417

1. Some Non-Trivial Calculus

As the MIT students sang back in 1971:Oh, the Ringworld is unstable
the Ringworld is unstable
did the best that they were able
and it's good enough for me!People who want the details should check out Non-Linear Dynamics of Ringworld Systems, by...

The Marx Sisters

Author	Barry Maitland
ISBN	0140291768

Detective Kathy Kolla's first case is one for the books. Meredith Winterbottom, a resident of Jerusalem Lane--a quaint section of London inhabited by Eastern European immigrants--and a great-granddaughter of Karl Marx, is found dead. Was she the victim of greedy real-estate developers, or was...

1933 Was a Bad Year

Author	John Fante
ISBN	0876856555

I have read this book standing.
Because Fante is a magician.

He lines up words so they become fireworks.
He manages to populate the hardships and the hopes next door - in back to back sentences.
You root for any character he wants, immediately.
He orchestrates how many crescendos...

The Man in the Ice: The Discovery of a 5000-year-old Body Reveals the Secrets of the Stone Age

Author

Konrad Spindler

The Man In Ice
by Konrad Spindler
Translated from German by Ewald Osers
1993
Harmony Books
3.5 / 5.0

In September 1991, mountaineers descending from the Finailspitze alps, in the area of Hauslabjoch, along the border of Austria and Italy, find a body half submerged in...

Children of the Fleet

Author	Orson Scott Card
ISBN	0765377047

From Orson Scott Card, award-winning and bestselling author of Ender's Game, his first solo Enderverse novel in years.

Children of the Fleet is a new angle on Card's bestselling series, telling the story of the Fleet in space, parallel to the story on Earth told in the Ender's Shadow series.

Ender...