Nah, i'm not a big science fiction reader. I enjoy science fiction movies though. I mainly read autobiographical accounts, especially about WWII (soldiers and survivors alike).
Speaking of survivors?
Tsutomu Yamaguchi must of been luckiest or unluckiest man
Tsutomu Yamaguchi (March 16, 1916 – January 4, 2010) was a Japanese marine engineer and a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II.
Yamaguchi lived and worked in Nagasaki, but in the summer of 1945 he was in Hiroshima for a three-month-long business trip. On August 6, he was preparing to leave the city with two colleagues, Akira Iwanaga and Kuniyoshi Sato, and was on his way to the train station when he realised he had forgotten his hanko (a type of identification stamp common in Japan) and returned to his workplace to get it.At 8:15 AM, he was walking towards the docks when the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb near the centre of the city, only 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) away.
Yamaguchi recalls seeing the bomber and two small parachutes, before there was "a great flash in the sky, and I was blown over".The explosion ruptured his eardrums, blinded him temporarily, and left him with serious radiation burns over the left side of the top half of his body. After recovering, he crawled to a shelter and, having rested, he set out to find his colleagues.They had also survived and together they spent the night in an air-raid shelter before returning to Nagasaki the following day.
In Nagasaki, he received treatment for his wounds and, despite being heavily bandaged, he reported for work on August 9. The day of the second atomic bombing. That morning, whilst he was being berated by his supervisor as "crazy" after describing how one bomb had destroyed the city, the Nagasaki bomb detonated. when the American bomber Bockscar dropped the Fat Man atomic bomb over the city. His workplace again put him 3 km from ground zero, but this time he was unhurt by the explosion. However, he was unable to replace his now ruined bandages and he suffered from a high fever and continuous vomiting for over a week.
He is the only person to have been officially recognized by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions.
Stories like that I find interesting.
Crow