It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll. 
I thought Children of Time was excellent, despite dragging a bit in spots. So did most of the science fiction book club I’m in, although a couple of people really disliked it.
On topic:
“It is unlawful to create more than one clone of a person at a time.”
Six Wakes, by Mur Lafferty
“Above the barren, sandy cape where the river joins the sea, there is a promontory or cliff rising straight up hundreds of feet to form the last outpost of land.”
– The Confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron
“Ruth Ann was running now, moving as fast as she could through the dense forest.”
Robert B. Parker’s Blackjack, by Robert Knott
Gotham has fallen silent.
Injustice: Gods Among Us - Year One by Tom Taylor
“I’ve enjoyed traveling ever since I was boy and went on my first proper journey, from Glasgow to Blackpool.”
–Journey to the Edge of the World by Billy Connolly
“Even in Los Angeles, where there is no shortage of remarkable hairdos, Harry Peak attracted attention.”
The Library Book by Susan Orlean (2018)
“When I think of Nikola Tesla, I see the pigeons.”
ReVisions, edited by Julie E. Czerneda and Isaac Szpindel. (Note, it’s a collection of short stories, and this sentence is from the first, “The Residence of Light” by Geoffrey Landis.)
“A mile above Oz, the Witch balanced on the wind’s forward edge, as if she were a green fleck of the land itself, flung up and sent wheeling away by the turbulent air.”
– Wicked: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
“In retrospect, it seems America was destined to be the birthplace of tiki.”
—Smuggler’s Cove by Martin Cate, a must read for rum aficionados.
“Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place.”
– The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Arthur Hammond prided himself on a certain degree of insensibility in the cause of duty–an indifference to physical discomfort and even to social awkwardness–a squelching of the natural repugnances, when these should interfere with the progress of a diplomatic mission.”
Crucible of Gold, by Naomi Novik
“There is just enough space inside here for one person to live indefinitely, or at least that’s what the operation manual says.”
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu
“The morning before Easter Sunday, June Kashpaw was walking down the clogged main street of oil boomtown Williston, North Dakota, killing time before the noon bus arrived that would take her home.”
Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich.
“June the fourth was notable for Jesse Cullum, because that was the day he lost his favorite pair of Oakley sunglasses, and saved the life of General Ulysees S. Grant.”
Last Year, Robert Charles Wilson
[Paraphrased from memory… Just finished listening to the audiobook, masterfully read by Scott Brick]
“A canopied entrance off Madison Avenue leads to one of New York’s most intimate concert venues, a place where time has seemingly stood still for more than a half a century.”
Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy (Jim Curtis)
“I was so supremely naive about so many things when I wrote Kitchen Confidential – my hatred for all things Food Netowrk being just one of them.”
Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
“You’re still at Trinity?”
Toucan Keep a Secret, by Donna Andrews
“I dropped by the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas the other day.”
MUSIC I-LXXIV by August Kleinzahler
“The explosion that blew out the west wall of the Physics Laboratory of the University of Tel Aviv did little real harm to Professor Arnie Klein who was working there at the time.”
The Daleth Effect by Harry Harrison