Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut, 1965)

The narrator is planning to write a book describing the whereabouts of important people when Hiroshima was bombed. During his research, the narrator becomes involved with the children of Felix Hoenikker, the fictional Nobel laureate physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb. As the novel progresses, the narrator learns of a substance called ice-nine, created by the late Hoenikker and now secretly in the possession of his children.

Rating: 9/10