It’s not sci-fi, but Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar lets you decide in what order to read the chapters.

Gift certificate to a pizza place or coffee shop, some place she might visit with friends.

I also like orange cats. A friend of mine had an orange kitten and I told her I wanted him.  When I went to her house to meet the kittens, a little gray one climbed on my lap and fell asleep. She was the one I eventually took home.

Giving a rescue cat a good home is a good thing to do. It doesn’t matter why you feel drawn to one cat over another.