Reddit reviews A Scientific Romance: A Novel

If you haven't read Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-5, then do so immediately.

I can't think offhand of anything that is layered quite like Cloud Atlas (I assume you're talking about structure and not meanings). I can think of some "meta/post-modern/time-jumping/changing narrators/interwoven stories" fiction that I've enjoyed (beware of spoilers if you read some of these links fully):

What a Piece of Work I Am.

The Lacuna

The Poisonwood Bible

Joshua Then and Now

English Passengers

jPod

Still Life with Woodpecker

Atonement

And of course Sci-Fi time travel to really screw up a novel's timeline:

A Scientific Romance

To Say Nothing of the Dog

https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Romance-Novel-Ronald-Wright/dp/0312199996


Seems like there's one left

There's a pretty interesting SF novel that posits a future world after humankind has mostly been wiped out by mad cow disease.

A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright.

Also, there's a very interesting piece of fiction that explores this theme in the context that H.G. Wells' "Time Machine" were true. It's called A Scientific Romance and it's well worth the read.

Read A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright! It's about insanity, illusion, time, death, isolation, beauty, nature, god and what it means to be human! Look at all these exclamation marks.

http://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Romance-Novel-Ronald-Wright/dp/0312199996/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317989625&sr=1-1


I was plugging it in some other thread. It looks like I've only read two things ever. But this is one I read once or twice a year. Seriously, it would make my day if more people read this amazing book.